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Most of the book is devoted to build that metaphor with the exception of chapter 11 memes the new replicators a little farfetch... Read More
He with the better strategy wins hell get the money hell get multiple sexual partners spread his genes and be very strong and confident
Many noncreationists are having this same feeling that something is terribly wrong with the dominant evolutionary paradigms
My father is delighted with the book it confirms his atheist ideas in scientific biological terms
Competitiveness
And when an animal discovers that its colors protect it because it looks like a vicious competitor its lying too
The principles that drive competition evolve over time along with life
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The only criticism i have is that dawkins clearly did not anticipate how many people would assume they knew what the book was about just by reading the title i have had several people mistakenly assert that the book says the opposite of what it actually does
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Having an animal genetics background myself it was too long winded for me to go through
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The selfish gene lays out a cool theory about what drives evolution
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I have a problem with the loose definition of a gene
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Id rather see the math for myself because the way gene is defined in the book necessitates a probabilistic definition of what constitutes a gene
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As well im not sure that gene competition is as universally principled as dawkins appears to lay it out in the book
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Id prefer that dawkins included appendices or web links to the mathematical arguments pertinent to the claimstheories he states for that subset of us that is interested in that kind of supporting evidence
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In a supreme irony dawkins book has entered the annals of the law of unintended consequences in that it is now best celebrated as giving birth to the idea of the meme the selfperpetuating idea whose characteristics are akin to the title role the selfish gene
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