Over the last thirty years, many scientists have come to insist that our behaviour is governed
by our genes-above all when it comes to sex, which, we are told, is how genes perpetuate …

Responses and related ideas continue to careen into each other with little diminished fury
and successful variations are now creating their own lineages. It is a good time to assess …

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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25
languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become …

The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long
battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by …

Abstract The 'Selfish Gene Theory'can be applied to man when data from modern
evolutionary biology, ethology and anthropology are taken into account. Thus, all human …

" Menopause Found No Barrier to Pregnancy!" recent headlines announced. Reproductive
technology is flying ahead at a dizzying pace, leaving moral discourse spinning in its wake …

The Selfish Gene. By Richard Dawkins. New York and Oxford: Oxford Uni-versity Press,
1976. xi+ 224 pp. $8.95. he virulent attacks on Edward 0. Wilson two years ago following his …

Intracellular warfare The roots of Hurst's hypothesis lie in the field of" intragenomic conflict,"
a hot new research area among Oxford's evolutionary biologists. The traditional view of the …

There is no book quite like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. Forty years after its first
publication, the book is still in Amazon's top 10 for both the Genetics and Evolution …