> If your knowledge of evolution is limited to having read 'The Selfish Gene', you should be aware that you likely carry several misconceptions I know this is

> If your knowledge of evolution is limited to having read 'The Selfish Gene', you should be aware that you likely carry several misconceptions I know this is veering wildly offtopic, but when I see misconceptions about evolution on HN, they're usually not being displayed by people with too rudimentary a science background, it's mostly people with an altogether unscientific background such as creationism or other religious and philosophical ideas that are in conflict with factual information. > Incidentally, I've also spotted this on the TV show QI, many of whose clever 'facts' are misleading at best or just plain incorrect. I'm not familiar with that show, but that's a common problem in science journalism now, and it's not even confined to "popular" science anymore either. Maybe it's always been that way, and I just notice it more nowadays.