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n. The concept of viewing genes as if they were the primary drivers and beneficiary of the evolutionary process.
Usage examples of "selfish gene".
Richard Dawkins had eloquently argued the case for the modern synthesis of Darwinism, as well as describing the so-called selfish gene.
Many books, culminating with Dawkins's The Selfish Gene in the 1970s, promoted the view that by knowing about the mechanism of heredity, we had found the key to all of the important puzzles of biology and medicine, especially evolution.
The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Extended Phenotype, and others.
His erection sprang free eagerly from his pants as Phyllis got the pants down his legs, as if in illustration of the selfish gene theory, and he could only laugh and tug at the long ventral zipper of her jumpsuit.
For the sociobiology debate, see, on the one side, Wilson, E O Sociobiology, the new Synthesis, Harvard University Press, 1975, or Dawkins, R The Selfish Gene, Oxford, 1976, and these two authors' several subsequent books.
It is time, to set aside, for the last time, the logic of the selfish gene, and to proclaim the triumph of altruistic self-awareness.