dprjones | Objective Morality - (part 4) @dprjones | Uploaded February 2010 | Updated October 2024, 37 minutes ago.
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If you are interested in altruism in animals and the development of morality you may want to look at the works of William Hamilton. Here is one link;
serpentfd.org/a/hamilton1964.html

Other sources include Pubmed;
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

Belding Alarm squirrels;
monobasinresearch.org/research/squirrels.htm

Youtube videos include relating to apparent altruistic behaviour include;

Battle at Kruger;
youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Hippo saves impala;
youtube.com/watch?v=WoP0xSMYcY0

Elephants save drowning baby;
youtube.com/watch?v=Cd-LtWtNvDw

Leopard and baby baboon;
youtube.com/watch?v=LNv4lBzgfto

I would also strongly recommend "Why do people laugh at creationists Part 29";
youtube.com/watch?v=vyd6om8IC4M

You may also want to read "The Selfish Gene"; ISBN 0-19-929115-2

The video footage of Dawkins came from this DVD which can be purchased here;
amazon.co.uk/Richard-Dawkins-Collection-Charles-Enemies/dp/B0016OMFLQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265588753&sr=1-1


Many thanks to happycabbie; DonExodus2 and thunderf00t for their help.