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Aug 8, 2022
7:41:02am

Archaea Truly Addicted User

Dawkins offends you is what I gather from your first line. Otherwise it sounds like an interesting book.

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Archaea

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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

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