The Case Against the Selfish Gene

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It’s a metaphor, not a hypothesis.

In biology, metaphors are explanatory devices that invariably become invalid as one digs deeper into a subject.

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Seems very tendentious and its goal is to vanquish a strawman Dawkins. Not thrilled.

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Another person who didn’t read the book. Yawn. Dawkins spends time explicitly correcting this fellows misapprehension with regards to selection at the level of “individuals”(which could be cells) vs “genes”.

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