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Horizon

Season 13 · Episode 25

The Selfish Gene

0.01h 0mNovember 15, 1976

This Horizon documentary explores animal behavior. Animals do not act for the good of their own species, rather for the preservation of their own genes.

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Episode 1The Transplant Experience
Episode 2Intimate Strangers
Episode 3A Fair Share of What Little We Have
Episode 4The Incredible Machine
Episode 5King Coal Revived
Episode 6A Question of Trust
Episode 7The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
Episode 8The Lords of the Labyrinth
Episode 9Inside the Shark
Episode 10The Chemical Dream
Episode 11The Edelin Affair
Episode 12The World of Margaret Mead
Episode 13The Pathway from Madness
Episode 14Geronimo's Children
Episode 15The Vision of the Blind
Episode 16A Lesson for Teachers
Episode 17Why Did Stuart Die?
Episode 18The Children of Peru
Episode 19Dying
Episode 20A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children
Episode 21What's Wrong with the Sun?
Episode 22The Bull's Eye War
Episode 23The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
Episode 24Billion Dollar Bubble
Episode 25The Selfish Gene
Episode 26A Child of Our Own
Episode 27Secrets of a Coral Island
Episode 28The Long Valley
Episode 29Half-Way to 1984
Episode 30The Mystery of King Arthur and His Round Table