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Aug 8, 2022
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Archaea
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You can recommend a book without placing your view of the author on it.
Dawkins offends you is what I gather from your first line. Otherwise it sounds like an interesting book.
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 7:36am
You can recommend a book without placing your view of the author on it.
Archaea
8/8/22 7:41am
If he really offends, me, I wouldn't recommend his book.
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 7:44am
You can read a review and deduce different things from each sentence
Covid-19
8/8/22 7:56am
Interesting, but I can't agree with this point
Hotlanta
8/8/22 7:43am
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Odysseus
8/8/22 7:46am
I'm chill with my cousins. But he does acknowledge that at some point removed,
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 8:12am
Altruism from an evolutionary biology perspective
WorfoSAUR
8/8/22 8:32am
Patently obvious? So if I give up a child for adoption and later adopt and raise
Rodolpho
8/8/22 7:44am
I think if you don't know he's your kid, then bets are off. He gives examples of
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 7:46am
So then it isn’t DNA, or at least only DNA, right?
Rodolpho
8/8/22 8:00am
Right. Not only DNA.
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 8:01am
Check out The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt. Sounds like you’d like it
Soren Tversky
8/8/22 7:45am
thanks
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 7:45am
So he is removing the role of agency and accountability in being a selfish jerk
2FarGone
8/8/22 7:53am
Sounds like a book a jerk would write ;). But seriously, he's just explaining
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 7:56am
Marilynne Robinson's writing on Dawkins is great
Gustav
8/8/22 8:02am
He's Jordan Peterson's doppelganger
vagabonder
8/8/22 8:11am
Group selection is not a universally accepted aspect of evolutionary theory…
valleus
8/8/22 8:33am
He doesn't believe so either. He thinks the individual organism is most
Genghis Spreads
8/8/22 8:35am
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