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PaulK
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04-08-2003 6:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by NosyNed
04-08-2003 4:50 PM

Re: Selfish Genes
No, you're absolutely right. The whole point of the "selfish gene" idea is that our genes are "selfish" in a metaphorical sense in that any benefit they have for us is only because it also benefits the gene's chance of reproduction.
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Syamasu has been on this mistaken track for years. Unfortunately it takes him a long time to learn anything.
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I think one of the reasons Dawkins comes in for so much hostility from creationists is that he wrote a best selling pop-science book defending evolution.
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04-10-2003 2:02 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by Primordial Egg
04-10-2003 1:40 PM

Re: Misunderstood...?
Zeitschrift Fuer Tierpsychologie (renamed Ethology) appears to be peer-reviewed
http://www.blackwell.de/eth.htm
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The Bibliography lists a likely candidate from there :
Replicator selection and the extended phenotype
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There appear to be some others which might at least touch on the subject.
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