![]() ![]() The gene centered view of evolution was popularized by Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, which mixed the best thinking available, with great prose, logical errors and sinfully unscientific sermonizing. Nature dooms all that damages what it depends on. A more fitting view is that there are evolutionary limits to selfishness. “Selfish” genes that don’t cooperate don’t survive. His pop-science of selfishness is widely misunderstood. But Richard Dawkins, the cardinal spokesperson for that oversimplified and unnaturally selective view, is guilty of logical lapses and false prophecy. ![]() They believe that’s just how evolution works. Many followers of reason think it natural and rational to be selfish. ![]()
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