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Original Title:	The Selfish Gene
ISBN:	0199291152 (ISBN13: 9780199291151)
Edition Language:	English

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Paperback | Pages: 360 pages

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Title	:	The Selfish Gene
Author	:	Richard Dawkins
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	30th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 360 pages
Published	:	May 25th 2006 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Biology. Evolution. Philosophy

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.

Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. —Rob Lightner

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The Science and Inquiry Book Club selection for August. Also the inaugural selection - yippie!-- -- -- Key concepts for me:+The universe is populated by stable things+"In sexually reproducing species, the individual is too large and too temporary a genetic unit to qualify as a significant unit of natural selection."+"The individual is a survival machine built by a short-lived confederation of long-lived genes."+Evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS), instead of group selection+Stable

Color me very impressed. I can now see why this is considered to be one of those hugely popular science books I keep hearing about and the reason why Dawkins has become so widely known and/or respected with or without his notoriety.Indeed, the pure science bits were pretty much awesome. We, or at least I, have heard of this theory in other contexts before and none of it really comes as much surprise to see that genes, themselves, have evolved strategies that are exactly the same as Game Theory

I read this years ago.. It was the first book I read with The Bay Area Book club..(the local book club I'm still in. I don't think I was a member of Goodreads yet. I thought this book was a little more 'textbook' in sections than I would have preferred .. At the time anyway..But I got value.. It's a good book..,And our book club discussion was excellent.



Reading this book was like meeting with a person about whom you have heard a lot, who has some kind of legendary status, and overall so well-acclaimed that you cannot resist the temptation to meet the person. Another thing you have heard is that the person is so simple, down to earth that he would take the trouble to talk to any layman, to make these biological terms much easier, more comprehensible and comfortable for him. And you think talking to you won't cause him much trouble because you

There's a good reason I imagine why The Selfish Gene was Jeffrey Skilling's favourite book. I'm agnostic myself, so I'm impartial, but Dawkins is so cynical, so against the idea that there is more to us as individual human beings than just intelligent apes meant to give birth, grow old and die, that he seems almost, for lack of a better phrase, sociopathic or antisocial. He leaves very little room for the profound depths of emotion, companionship, imagination, nostalgia or anything that goes

Richard Dawkin's 1976 classic game changer The Selfish Gene contains information I still didn't know, almost 40 years later. His basic idea is that the essential unit of life is the gene; our bodies are just big fleshy protection robots for the gene. Dawkins says I'm a tool. Right? High five!And you might be like "Okay, so who cares?" What difference does that make, right? Well, first of all I'm gonna go have some pie because fuck you, genes, you're not the boss of me. Woohoo! Other than that,