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Regarding '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
by folli 11y ago
Regarding '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.