Not a good title (I know, probably not decided by the author), but overall a good piece on selection at multiple levels.
The selfless gene: Rethinking Dawkins’s doctrine
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Ugh. That title is miserable at several levels. (Maybe they got a physicist to write it.) Why is the gene-centred view of evolution a “doctrine”? Why ascribe it to Dawkins, instead of Hamilton, Williams, Fisher? And if we’re moving beyond the gene-centred view, why does the headline focus on genes, anyway?
Fittingly enough, the knowledge of the headline writer seems restricted to book titles.
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