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Meaning of "selfish gene"

The term 'selfish gene' refers to a concept introduced by biologist Richard Dawkins in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. It suggests that genes, rather than organisms, are the primary unit of selection in evolution. The idea is that genes drive the behavior of organisms in ways that maximize their own reproduction, even if it is at the expense of other genes or organisms
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  • The gene regarded as the primary driver and beneficiary of the evolutionary process.

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Has been a critic of the selfish gene idea.
The selfish gene.
She was talking about the selfish gene.
From the illusory selfish gene to the cooperative.
I guess the coffee cup really has a selfish gene.
Selfish gene theory.
This book tells of the selfish gene.
Here the selfish gene theory has a more exacting challenge.
You have such a selfish gene.
A selfish gene could be favored by selection by producing altruism among organisms containing it.
An uneasy tension disturbs the heart of the selfish gene theory.
The book seeks to refute the selfish gene theory promulgated by Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins called them the selfish gene.
I have a lecture on selfish gene theory at SOAS.
The evolution of ecosystems and of Gaia involves more than the selfish gene.

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You must have gotten the selfish gene from your father.
The Selfish Gene is rightfully a science classic.
I do not think anybody in that selfish gene group really read Kropotkin.
The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
I wrote The Selfish Gene in something resembling a fever of excitement.
It would become known as the Selfish Gene.
In some ways, the selfish gene has actually produced a kind species.
The Dutch primatologist Frans De Waal has been a critic of the selfish gene idea.
I have that selfish gene that makes me wanna make little copies of myself. Mmm hmm.
That's the meaning of the phrase selfish gene.
His first book, The Selfish Gene was an international bestseller.
But then again… there are those with the selfish gene.
The selfish gene theory has no use for humans after reproductive age ( typically age 13 ).
Why it's time to lay the selfish gene to rest.
This is the fundamental idea that Richard Dawkins explained in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Are not humans rather nicer than even the selfish gene theory would expect?
The Selfish Gene further popularised sociobiology in Japan after its translation in 1980.
Sheeeeeesh, yes I plan to read the selfish gene.
Richard Dawkins 's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction . ”.
Like Hobbes, Locke believed that people are born with the selfish gene.
Attenborough also discussed bower birds, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, ants and meerkats.
It was mainly popularized and expanded by Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene 1976.
I am sure you are aware of The Selfish Gene by Dawkins?
In the ' 70s, I wrote a book bringing these ideas together, called The Selfish Gene.
Finally, the selfish gene.
The term meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Humor us! The selfish gene.
The whole idea of memes comes from Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
It is, therefore, the opposite of the selfish gene.
So he 's saying, what do genes want? The selfish gene.

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