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, or Charles Stross ; Scott Card's Ender's Game series and David Weber and John Ringo's Prince Roger books (which start with March Upcountry); The Selfish Gene , also known as the book that gave Richard Dawkins the scientific credibility to be a famous atheist ; Michael Pollan 's glorious food
How frequently misunderstood is the gene-centric view of evolution (disseminated Richard Dawkins's brilliant first book, The Selfish Gene).
“- John Fitzgerald Kennedy"Sometime around my early thirties I stumbled upon evolutionary biology, particularly in the form of Richard Dawkins’s books The Selfish Gene and then The Blind Watchmaker and suddenly (on, I think the second reading of The Selfish Gene) it all fell into place.
The selfish gene, tao te ching, documentaries. The tao te ching I read a lot, the selfish gene once but they're both spiritual.
The Evolution Knowledge Test
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The Soulful Concordance Test
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The Hooray I'm a Tenenbaum Test
The Royal Tenenbaums is a nifty, beautiful movie that separates the world into effectively three categories: those who loved it, those who hated it, a... ...
The Dragon Tooth Crop Test
Have you ever pondered why other people are here on Earth? To live together like one big happy family? To annoy the sh*t out of you? To be manipulated... ...
The Are You Funktastic To Cal Test
Are you funktastic? Would you last a day in the shoes of my closest of friends? Would you be compatible to my level of awesomeness? The enigmatic Mr C... ...
Universal Exculpation and the Problem of Sociopathy (2009-03-23 09:08)
Richard Dawkins, in his book The Selfish
Gene, steps in to explain: natural selection doesn’t choose the
selfish organism, it chooses the selfish gene. It is the gene that
produces organisms most capable of preserving itself that triumphs,
not the gene that produces organisms most capable of
Neat.
a couple
of Richard Dawkins' books - The Ancestor's Tale and The Selfish
Gene. Immediately prior to telling me this, he walked into my
computer room, handed me The Selfish Gene, and told me to "Read it
fast." =D Before The Selfish Gene, the layman's texts I've read
were physics/cosmology books.
What is the deal with selfish guys?
People in general are selfish. Now,
for fun, I'm going to go ahead and agree with the Gene-man above
me. Selfish IS good. The trouble is that so many people are morons,
and can't see how incredibly selfish it is to be nice to other
people and help them out.
Cheating and biology
grandchildren or strangers across the world is still selfish from a
genetic perspective.The degree of certifiable non-selfishness only
increases as the topical relevance diminishes. The only individual
we can safely call completely non-selfish, is likely insane--one
who pledges ethical commitment to
Do you believe in the power of prayer?
the gene complex, and/or it is not equally expressed in all
people. This allows for some people to be extremely selfish
with no altruistic genetic motivator, while making sure that the
selfish people have a good supply of more selfless masses to work
with. The selfless gene
What Book Made the Largest Impact on Your Life?
Single book that altered the way I look at life would have to be
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I'd always understood/accepted
evolution to be the best explanation of how/why we exist. The
Selfish Gene made me really understand the context of time involved
and dispelled the last few niggling
THE NATURE OF EVIL.
was that we are all individuals selfishly
pursuing our own selfish interests in the Darwinian sense, ... that these societal drives have a genetic component. In
the sociopath we have what might be an example of someone born with
the gene (or gene complex, or set of gene complexes) for empathy
and for
How do you determine the value of a human life? Are humans equal in value? If yes, why? If no, why not?
value, only
the value of individual genes then that'd make sense. However I'm
not sure how 'The Selfish Gene' in any way states that everyone is
equal value...In fact, if anything it states the opposite. If
certain genes are damaging to the rest of the common genes that
make up an individual, and/or
When did you decide not to have kids and why?
is more selfish than having kids; the belief that
you and your genes are superior enough to be duplicated, and that
you have something so important to pass down to the next
generation. Please.I must say that this argument is quite
dangerous, if you don't believe that you gene is important
