The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

But you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control; otherwise, the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature. The

we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

Ideally, what an individual would ‘like’ (I don’t mean physically enjoy, although he might) would be to copulate with as many members of the opposite sex as possible, leaving the partner in each case to bring up the children.

There is no reason why a man should not inherit a tendency to develop a long penis from his mother.

even with selfish genes at the helm, nice guys can finish first.

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