...Tyler seemysig@cyberspace.org wrote:- Subject: Re: A call for bookrecommendations, and the old "Selfish Gene" My claim was: "IMO, Dawkins was right about ... reversed within his evolutionary theory so that "selfish genes" can now produce "altruistic organisms" where ... altruism cannot be separated from organism fitness selfishness within empirical science. I remain happy to go...
... along these lines will prove to be challenging - the task seems to be obviously well beyond our scope today. Anyway, the link between the possibility of non-nucleic-acid inheritance and the "Selfish Gene" controversy seems a bit tenuous to me: Didn't Dawkins christen memetics? I don't think he has a problem with the idea that not everything is necessarily inherited via nucleic acids....
...ago, I read Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene", which I found eloquent, informative... in the 1970's, when "The Selfish Gene" was first published, it was ...>>See section 8: Challenges to the "Selfish Gene" I don't really see ...does say specifically: "Critics of the "Selfish Gene" point to the universally acknowledged...I never got far in Dawkins "selfish gene" so I don't really...
...in the 1970's, when "The Selfish Gene" was first published, it was...See section 8: Challenges to the "Selfish Gene" I don't really see...does say specifically: "Critics of the "Selfish Gene" point to the universally ...feed you what Sterelny and Griffiths call, somewhat sarcastically, the "received view" ... chewing thoroughly. They will recommend only books that channel this view....
... field of evolutionary biology views "The Selfish Gene" is to look in the ... you'll find that the Dawkins' book is pretty much ignored. There are ... common to find citations to "The Selfish Gene" or "The Extended Phenotype" in.... But Gould wrote many more books than Dawkins has managed so far...s books is longer than a list of Dawkins'. Both "The Selfish Gene" and "The Extended Phenotype" ...
... outlines a "gene-centric" view where he describes humans as survival machines and replicators and then at the end of the book writes about how we can overcome our "selfish genes". I'm curious what he proposes. Does anybody have any info? Dawkins did a documentary in which he ...
...gather that back in the 1970's, when "The Selfish Gene" was first published, it was rather controversial.... how the field of evolutionary biology views "The Selfish Gene" is to look in the textbooks. When...do that, you'll find that the Dawkins' book is pretty much ignored. There are no chapters ...'s not common to find citations to "The Selfish Gene" or "The Extended Phenotype" in the textbooks...
...ago, I read Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene", which I found eloquent, informative...in the 1970's, when "The Selfish Gene" was first published, it was...See section 8: Challenges to the "Selfish Gene" I don't really see...feed you what Sterelny and Griffiths call, somewhat sarcastically, the "received view" ...without chewing thoroughly. They will recommend only books that channel this view. ...
Tim Tyler seemysig@cyberspace.org wrote:- He writes: "We alone on earth can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators", and: "We, that is our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them. We do so in a small way every time we use contraception. There is no reason we should not rebel in a large way too."'' ...
I found the following two books helpful in providing a context although the Sober/Wilson stuff has moved beyond this particular framing of grounds of discussion. Dawkin's vs Gould - Kim Sterelny The Darwin Wars - Arthur Brown Al
