The Selfish Gene

A Reading

Monday, October 12, 2009

Chapter 12 Nices Guys Finish First

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In this chapter Dawkins explains an experiment preformed by a mathematician. He set up a program where different plays would play a game of ...
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Chapter 11 Memes: The New Genes

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I'll ignore this chapter since it doesn't fit in with the rest of the book. Essentially Dawkins claims memes replicate in minds as g...
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Chapter 10 You Scratch My Back I'll Ride Yours

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In this chapter Dawkins explains that in any case of individuals working together they must gain more then they put in. In herding all creat...
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Chapter 9 Battle of the Sexes

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Richard Dawkins theorizes that species originally differentiated into sexes when one group began to develop larger sex cells because the lar...
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Monday, October 5, 2009

Chapter 8 Battle of the Generations

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There is an inherent conflict between the generations of parent and child. The mother is interested in having the optimum number of off spri...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Chapter 7 Family Planning

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In which Dawkins trashes population control for the good of the group This chapter is devoted to debunking the idea that animals regulate th...
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Chapter 6 Genesmanship

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In which Dawkins explains (away) altruism So, the only way an altruistic gene could become frequent enough in the gene pool to exist in a la...
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