I don’t agree. It doesn’t hold up, unless Dawkins has displayed much deeper reflection in his 50th anniversary edition than previous editions. I have it pre-ordered and looking forward to finding out. Here is my detailed take: open.substack.com/pub/drchrise...
Is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"?
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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO)
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age
