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Not an easy read due to the nature of the subject but the lightbulb literally switches on after reading it

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Read it if your selfish and it will change your perspectives but not your actions only you can change them which you wont cos your selfish

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There are 4 prefaces covering the different editions over the years and 70 odd pages of end notes covering the latest thinking and giving dawkins a reply to his critics

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Very interesting booking pretty hard to read

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Selfish genes ≠ selfish phenotypesmany people who have never read the selfish gene and strangely a few who apparently have misunderstand the phrase selfish gene to mean a gene that causes people to be selfish

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In other words individual genes are themselves conceived of as selfish in that they have evolved by natural selection to selfishly promote their own survival and replication

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This is because where altruism is directed towards biological kin such altruism can facilitate the replication of genes shared among relatives through common descent

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It was a landmark work of popular science that introduced a new approach to understanding the evolution of the behaviour and physiology of species that of the gene’s eye view of evolution to a wider readership composed of both biologist and nonbiologist alike and deserves to stand in its original form as a landmark in the history of science