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In what sense does Dawkins think that our genes are selfish? Does his view make sense?
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In what sense does Dawkins think that our genes are selfish? Does his view make sense? Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene" gives us his own view of the world, full of selfishness and altruism. Supporting Darwin's genetical theory of natural selection, in which atoms connect with each other, forming groups and then after complex procedures humans, he wants to present humans and animals as survival machines created by their genes. To accomplish that he starts, by analyzing the question "How life has been created, before evolution began"? As he suggests, there were four chemicals before any other living thing. Those four chemicals were water, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, which are all the simple compounds known to be present, on at least some of the other planets in our solar systems. They were put together combined with a supply of ultraviolet light or electric sparks,...
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