Linking Thinking

Reconsiderations: Richard Dawkins and His Selfish Meme

Pat Shipman explores the ironic legacy of Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene (1976): “The benefit to science of ‘The Selfish Gene’ in triggering a new understanding of the magnificent complexity of evolutionary processes must be weighed against the harm the book has done in provoking a backlash against science.

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