“A foreign publisher of my first book [ The Selfish Gene ] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after reading it, so troubled was he by what he saw as its cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in the mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote to me reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in.

Dec 30,  · Almost certainly - but to think of a "selfishness gene" or a "hard-working gene" or a "kind gene" is a gross over simplification. Almost nothing in the human body is controlled by a single gene and complex behaviours are very unlikely to result that way.

The "selfish gene" theory proposed by Richard Dawkins has been an influential thread in scientific and popular thinking for the past 25 years. The key concept is that any action is a supremely self- serving one on the part of the actor, devoid of motivation to serve the larger group to which the actor belongs (i.e., genes as parts of an organism).

Dawkins wants to show that selfish genes explain all mating behavior in the natural world. First, he needs a uniform way to address a diverse array of mating practices. The only commonality across species is that mating happens with a small sex cell (which he’ll call male) and a .

Lyrics. You, me and destiny Guess that it was never meant to be All you did was give me allergy I'm not looking for your sympathy You, me and destiny I am courted by uncertainty Lost my will to live unselfishly Altruism stinks of fallacy My selfish gene It fills my spleen with bile And all the while I thought you gave a damn You, me and destiny Guess that it was never meant to be All you needed was some courtesy .

Lyrics to 'My Selfish Gene' by Catatonia. You, me and destiny Guess that it was never meant to be All you did was give me allergy I'm not looking for your sympathy.

Jan 13,  · Selfish Gene Lyrics: Just now I see it so clear / Total shift in the unconscious / When at the start it seems like fates / Have set it up like so much magic / Just a ruse to get you in there / Seems.

he selfish gene theory is Darwin's theory, expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness, I should like to think, he would instantly have recognized and delighted in. It is in fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image. Rather than focus on the individual organism, it takes a gene's-eye.

Jul 31,  · The Selfish Gene — First published in Subjects Evolution (Biology), Genetics, Sociobiology, Behavior genetics, Genetica, Etologia Animal, Genetics.5/5(3).