The Selfish Gene

Name: The Selfish Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins

by Richard Dawkins

Argues that genes are the unit of natural selection, not individual organisms

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Richard Dawkins

British evolutionary biologist and atheist polemicist whose The Selfish Gene revolutionized how evolution is understood by proposing that genes, not organisms, are the unit of selection. The God Delusion became the bestselling anti-religious polemic of the 21st century. He coined the word 'meme.'

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