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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dayt0na" data-source="post: 25417444" data-attributes="member: 386931">The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution" target="_blank">evolution</a> by the biologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" target="_blank">Richard Dawkins</a>, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Williams_(biologist)" target="_blank">George C. Williams</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_and_Natural_Selection" target="_blank">Adaptation and Natural Selection</a> (1966). Dawkins uses the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolution" target="_blank">gene-centered view of evolution</a> (as opposed to the views focused on the organism and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection" target="_blank">group</a>), popularizing ideas developed during the 1960's by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton" target="_blank">W. D. Hamilton</a> and others. From the gene-centered view, it follows that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other.A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineage_(evolution)" target="_blank">lineage</a> is expected to evolve to maximize its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_fitness" target="_blank">inclusive fitness</a>—the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, populations will tend towards an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy" target="_blank">evolutionary stable strategy</a>. The book also introduces the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme" target="_blank">meme</a> for a unit of human <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_evolution" target="_blank">cultural evolution</a> analogous to the gene, suggesting that such "selfish" replication may also model human culture, in a different sense. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics" target="_blank">Memetics</a> has become the subject of many studies since the publication of the book. In raising awareness of Hamilton's ideas, as well as making its own valuable contributions to the field, the book has also stimulated research on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_inclusive_fitness" target="_blank">human inclusive fitness</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene#cite_note-SBNK-1" target="_blank">[1]</a>According to Richard Dawkins, Tissa maybe right. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Suddek kiwwahama podi validity ekak tiyenewa neda <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/P.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":P" title=":P    :P" data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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