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04-08-2003 4:50 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Syamsu
04-08-2003 3:28 PM

Selfish Genes
My reading of "The Selfish Gene" didn't lead me to the same place as others seem to have gotten. Mabye I've forgotten something.
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It seems to me that the "selfishness" is just a metaphor. Only genes that cause phenotypes or behaviours that promopt their reproduction will proliferate. Calling this "selfish" is poetic at best and anthropomorphizing at worst but it doesn't change the underlying description of what is going on.
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Can anyone straighten me out on this?
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