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 | #924182 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-03-15 |  2008-02-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.70 x6.40 x8.90l,2.10 | File type: PDF | 632 pages

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||37 of 40 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating|By Dr. Lee D. Carlson|The concept of a "selfish gene" has made its way into the popular and semi-popular press, and because of this has provoked many discussions in ethical circles as well as in the area known as evolutionary psychology. Some of these discussions attempt to set the record straight on just what biologists mean when they talk about selfish genes. Th| |Robert Trivers is an under-appreciated genius, and one of history's greatest thinkers in the analysis of behavior and emotion. (Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works

In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some genes spread in spite of being harmful to the host organism―by distorting their own transmission to the next generation, or by changing how the host behaves toward relatives. As a consequence, different genes in a single organism can have diametrically opposed interests and adaptations.
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