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Reconsiderations: Richard Dawkins and His Selfish Meme
Topic: Science 10:52 am EDT, May  4, 2008

Some predicted that this book would be the death knell of the idea of group selection. No longer would evolutionary biologists suggest that natural selection worked to promote the good of the species (group selection) or even the individual and his close relatives who share many of his genes (kin selection, a type of group selection).

But prediction is difficult in a contingent world such as ours, where life is complex and accidents and coincidences wield so much power. Has "The Selfish Gene" in fact killed off group selection ideas? Why not? And what effect has the book had instead?

Reconsiderations: Richard Dawkins and His Selfish Meme



 
 
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