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Mind-blowing for those who've read 'The Selfish Gene' and thought it explained everything about evolution: 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Para
by jonathansizz 11y ago
Mind-blowing for those who've read 'The Selfish Gene' and thought it explained everything about evolution:
'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme', SJ Gould and RC Lewontin
'The Origins of Genome Architecture', M Lynch
'Mutation-Driven Evolution', M Nei
- s_baby 11y agoI've never read that particular Gould book but I have to agree his ideas on biology are pretty mind blowing and more relevant than ever.
- folli 11y agoRegarding 'the selfish gene', I still think that the concept that the gene is the unit of evolution and the resulting organism is just its proxy, is one of the greatest insights since Darwin.
- mrpsbrk 11y agoBe that as it might, that is not Dawkins' idea (i believe the foremost thinker in that regard is W. D. Hamilton), what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name.
- cpach 11y ago'folli never claimed it was Dawkins’ idea ;-) ”what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name” Well, he also wrote an accessible book on the subject. And that book is littered with references to other literature on the subject.
- mrpsbrk 11y agoAlso Lynn Margulis. http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/16-interview-lynn-margulis-not-controversial-right http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/16-interview-lynn-margu...