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It starts of with the selfish and altruistic activities of Nature which takes us to the very origin of life, in fact, origin of the universe and later to how the inanimate objects have developed into the immortal replicators which are the basis of Life. The thought ...more
It starts of with the selfish and altruistic activities of Nature which takes us to the very origin of life, in fact, origin of the universe and later to how the inanimate objects have developed into the immortal replicators which are the basis of Life. The thought ...more
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Originally published in 1976, this edition builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centered view of evolution as opposed to the views focused on the organism and the group. The view suggests that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other. Interestingly, this do
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