About the book
Richard Dawkins presents the gene-centred view of evolution, in which genes are the units natural selection acts on and organisms are vehicles built to carry and replicate them. Building on George C. Williams and on W. D. Hamilton's work on kin selection, he shows why individuals sharing more genes have more reason to cooperate, and much of the book actually explains how altruism evolves. Early chapters move from the first replicators in the primordial soup to DNA and Mendelian inheritance. The book also coined the word meme for a unit of cultural transmission. Dawkins has said he wishes he had taken Tom Maschler's advice to call it The Immortal Gene, since too many people judge it by its title.
Charlie Munger recommends it in Poor Charlie's Almanack, in its second edition. Mark Manson put it on his list of the best science books, saying its idea of gene selection turned evolutionary thinking upside down.
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Charlie Munger (Vice Chairman/Berkshire Hathaway)
On Charlie Munger’s Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Mark Manson (Author)
Sometimes an idea changes how you see the world. Dawkins explains the revolutionary idea in biology of gene selection, completely flipping evolutionary thought on its head.
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