Nice Guys Finish First

Richard Dawkins

Nice Guys Finish First (German: Cute boys come first in ) is a British television documentary, which was published by Richard Dawkins in 1986 and broadcast by the BBC. Dawkins also as an interviewer and narrator through the film. He describes the impact of evolution on altruistic behavior. Be treated and discussed among other things the game theory, the principle of " Tit for Tat " and the prisoner's dilemma. The twelfth chapter in Dawkins book The Selfish Gene is also named Nice Guys Finish First and explained similar to the movie.

Content

In the first scene of the film compares the behavior in free capitalism with duels in the animal kingdom. It also Margaret Thatcher appears. In the beginning, Richard Dawkins responds to the criticism that has been leveled at his first book, The Selfish Gene. In particular, he criticized as conservative and right-wing extremists use these scientific findings as justification for social Darwinism and laissez -faire capitalism.

The concept of the inverse altruism is a central theme of this documentation. Dawkins also examines the tragedy of the commons. Using the example of Port Meadow, Oxford, he illustrates this theory. He illustrates the idea of ​​game theory by 14 academics to participate with their own computer programs in a tournament. Winner was the participant who was going on the principle Tit for Tat. Its most important principles were explained by Dawkins:

In a second experiment with more than sixty candidates won Tit for Tat again. Dawkins demonstrates the principle of " Tit for Tat " even at a football game: At the last match of the English Football League First Division 1976/77 Sunderland, Bristol and Coventry were (all tied ) in danger of relegation. Both games took place with a delay of five minutes. After it was a draw between Coventry and Bristol and you had learned that Sunderland had lost, Bristol and Coventry agreed to the ball unmotivated back and one that tries to and so to avoid relegation.