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The idea of genes in conflict with each other, the notion of the genome as a sort of battlefield between parental genes and childhood genes, or between male genes and female genes, is a little-known story outside a small group of evolutionary biologists. Yet it has profoundly shaken the philosophical foundations of biology.

We all use exactly the same language.
This means - and religious people might find this a useful argument - that there was only one creation, one single event when life was born.

Wherever you go in the world, whatever animal, plant, bug or blob you look at it, if it is alive, it will use the same dictionary and know the same code.

we are all descended from society, not from an individual species - or you can see it as the ultimate proof of the theory of the selfish gene: in those days, even more than today, the war was carried on between genes, using organisms as temporary chariots and forming only transient alliances; today it is more of a team game.