The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins’ brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped exchange the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins clarifies how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves nearly savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This revised edition of Dawkins’ fascinating book contains two new chapters. One, entitled “Nice Guys End First,” demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. The other new chapter, entitled “The Long Reach of the Gene,” which reflects the arguments presented in Dawkins’ The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. Containing a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world, the second edition once again drives home the fact that truth is weirder than fiction.Amazon.com Review
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous exchange in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thought about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel’s work was rediscovered, we turn it nearly and presume that “our” genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to resolution many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven’t plotting of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of “unused” DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own opportunity to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet’s clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to yield more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing thoughts, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to know our strings. –Rob Lightner
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It is weird to see Richard Dawkins going nearly bashing and trashing biblical creationists as pre-scientific flat earthers. The top is that biblical creationists are not a bunch of people living in a phantasy world. If we were, Dawkins would not be as worried and nervous as he is these days. The top is that we do challenge Richard Dawkins assumptions and conclusions head on, with direct statments whose validity can be checked scientifically by everybody. Here are some examples one some creatinists statemens that Dawkins and others have been having a hard time with:
1) Since life has been calculated, we can find appearence and evidence of design in molecular biology and fine-tuning of the universe for supporting life. Just check the facts!
2) Since life has been calculated, its origin cannot be clarified by just so tales of prebiotic soup or random mutations and natural selection. Just check the facts!
3) Since life is the product of unique creation, evidence of gradualistic evolution will not be found in the fossil record nor in molecular biology. Saltationism won’t be able to clarify it either. Just check the facts!
4) Since life is the product of unique creation, small variations within kinds won’t be able clarify the generation of absolutely new kinds. Just check the facts!
5) Since there was a global flood followed by dispersion, many cases of rapid speciation are to be expected. But rapid speciation has nothing to do with evolution. Speciation removes in rank. Evolution is supposed to make it out of nothing.
Just check the facts!
6) Since there was a global flood, one should guess abundant fossil deposits, many cases of polystratic fossils and a significant quantity of living fossils. Just check the facts!
7) Since there was a global flood, one has reasons to guess abundant evidence of catastrophism, plate tectonics, continental drift and the ice age. Just check the facts!
9) Since there was a global flood, radiometric dating methods that assume uniformitarianism will prove useless and render contradictory consequences. Just check the facts!
10) Since the earth is not million years ancient, we should guess that the oldest civilizations are relatively recent. Just check the facts!
11) Since cultural development has nothing to do with biological evolution, we should guess to find some primitive civilizations (including cave men) even today, coexisting with more advanced ones (as we can see in Brasil or Australia). Just check the facts!
12) Since life is the result of an intelligent cause, complex specified in rank and irreducible complexity can never be accounted for on purely naturalistic and gradualistic grounds. Just check the facts!
13) Since there was no evolution, embryonic recapitulation is nonsense, and so is the notion of vestigial organs and junk-DNA. Just check the facts!
14) Since there was no huge bang, this theory won’t be able to account for the structure and location of galaxies nor for out own solar system. Just check the facts!
15) Since there was no evolution, all of our “primate” ancestors will turn out to be, on closer inspection, either man or apes. Just check the facts!
Everyone starts with some assumptions. Uniformitarianists, for instance, have their own assumptions, and so do naturalists. We dont hide ours. But starting from the Bible we are able to make precise statements about the real world and about the facts of science, and we just direct the “sapiens sapiens” evolutionists, Dawkins included, this simple challenge: If you are so sure about your knowledge, please just try to answer clearly to our objections, if you can! Just check the facts!
Rating: 3 / 5
Richard Dawkings is a very intelligent militant atheist that cannot get past his own biased worldview. He is not capable of handling anyone who disagrees with him and typically will say his detractors are insane.
This book is a masterful treatise on micro-evolution. But there is no debate on whether micro-evolution happens / happened.
The come forth is macro-evolution which Dawkins as yet (or anyone for that matter), has been able to provide any scientific evidence.
Rating: 1 / 5
THe book is wierd… it clarifies a lot of nonsense things and he does not knoe how to write a book.. He discussion to much about examples and it takes him 10 pages to get to his points. I disagree with a lot of stuff he says in this book. i dont reckon selfish is something we born with. we learned to be selfish. Dont buy this book!! Just borrow it from your friends or the library.
Rating: 2 / 5
When a Creationist questioned Mr. Dawkins “Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary administer which can be seen to increase the in rank in the genome?”, Dawkins was clearly stumped. If the socalled authority on the topic is unable to resolution this simple question, what value is his book? Creationists can resolution it. Evolution is a dead dogmatic institution rotting on the dusty book shelves of universities. Only social outcasts and weird beard professors are capable of sustaining belief in this dead institution which blinds itself to the facts in order to maintain faith in the absurd creed of evolution theory hostile to Creation fact.
Rating: 1 / 5
Whether you are religious,atheist or an agnostic and in the powerful position of being able to write a book and get your book/books published;no matter how write you reckon you are there are certain things that should morally be beyond the pale. If a religious person was to write a book in which they were absolutely and absolutely certain that they viewpoint of the world was right what would your reaction be.Probably fine,he or she is entitled to their viewpoint on life,but what if the book was really more than someone’s passionate promotion;what if the book was a combination of mind manipulation and a secret code to be decoded and once the book had been decoded you got in your mind an image of an angel or some other religious descriptions.Now what would your reaction be.Probably at first confusion then outrage.Well that takes us onto the book the selfish gene by Richard Dawkins. After that last paragraph you can now guess what i’m about to say:the selfish gene by Richard Dawkins is a combination of mind manipulation and a secret code to be decoded,if you read and decode the book you will get in you mind the image of one large computer(i know it happened to me).If you reckon i’m talking a load of nonsense there are clues in the book:look up the word computer in the reference part of the book and read the relevant sections and find out for yourself.
Rating: 1 / 5