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ALIENs

What are the psychological consequences of seeing oneself as a vehicle hosting selfish genes that would eventually destroy the body? Does that make one see a pregnancy as the gene’s victory? Or the host’s free will? Can a “vehicle” even claim to have a free will or have reproductive desires been confiscated by these little [...]

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2009 08 19 meta Comments (0)

THE SELFISH GENE

This term, coined by Richard Dawkins expresses a gene-centred view of evolution. The contention is that the genes that get passed on are the ones whose consequences serve their own implicit interests (to continue being replicated), not necessarily those of the organism.
In Dawkins theory, we cannot view the act of conception as replication of the [...]

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2009 08 14 science Comments (0)