From 6727c3087307c00f39f7f618f7fb1a42326595573a57d775c2da2f7ae91a6492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Initial commit --- content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md (limited to 'content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md') diff --git a/content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md b/content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0205d61 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/book-the-selfish-gene.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "[Book] The Selfish Gene" +date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00 +draft: false +--- +Famous atheist, evolutionary biologist, and coiner of the modern term "meme" Richard Dawkins[1] takes a gene-centric view of Darwinian evolution by natural selection in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The gene-centric view of evolution is beautifully elegant. It does a better job of explaining evolutionary concepts than overly reductionist theories such as group selection. The basic idea is incredibly simple, an overview of it given in the first two chapters with the rest of the book going into further detail. + +[Book Link][2] + +> “In the beginning was simplicity.” -- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene + + +Link(s): +[1: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins) +[2: https://wikiless.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene](https://wikiless.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene) -- cgit v1.2.3