What is the selfish gene?

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In 1976, Richard Dawkins turned the view of evolution around. Bodies, he wrote, are vehicles. What lasts are genes: stretches of DNA copied down the generations. A gene spreads if it makes more copies of itself, even through a body that helps others, since a sibling carries, on average, half your genes. Selfish genes can build generous animals.

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