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The Selfish Gene
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- In Richard Dawkins
…he published his first book, The Selfish Gene, in which he tried to rectify what he maintained was a widespread misunderstanding of Darwinism. Dawkins argued that natural selection takes place at the genetic rather than species or individual level, as was often assumed. Genes, he maintained, use the bodies of…
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philosophy of biology and evolutionary psychology
- In philosophy of biology: Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology
Wilson, and popularized in The Selfish Gene (1976), by the British biologist Richard Dawkins.
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