The Selfish Gene

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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 1.

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They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 2.

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