From Wikipedia:
"The Selfish Gene is a book on sociobiology by Richard Dawkins, first published in 1976, with the purpose "to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism"
Dawkins uses the term "selfish gene" as a way of popularizing a gene-centered view of evolution. From the genocentric view, the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other.
An organism is expected to evolve to maximize its inclusive fitness-an individual's own reproductive success plus the success of its relatives (weighted by their relatedness).
In Dawkins' words, natural selection favors genes that build "survival machines" ("vehicles"). In other words, according to genocentrism, organisms evolve as elaborate contraptions constructed and controlled by genes, and evolution selects among these competing phenotypes or "interactors", not by altering the activity or form of the underlying genes ("replicators"), but simply by proliferating those mutated instructions that engender construction of the most successful survival machines. The result of this phenotypic evolution is to select gene populations with an evolutionarily stable strategy or ESS."
The movie Noah sucked. But it had the most brilliant history-of-time timelapse (slightly incorrect, but whatever). This, and I had just finished reading the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins which completely updated & revised what I thought I knew about evolution. The distinction between replicators and the vehicles they ride in. I had to put the two together.
Негізгі бет truth is stranger than fiction
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