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Sunday 05 Jun 2005

Genes cannot be selfish or unselfish, any more than atoms can be jealous, elephants abstract or biscuits teleological.

-- Mary Midgley
Read the rest in Gene juggling, In Defence of Selfish Genes and The Selfish Gene

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• Philosopher Mary Midgley on Richard Dawkins selfish genes (royalinstitutephilosophy.org)
• Mary Midgley
• Philosophy, Vol. 54, No. 210. (1979), pp. 439-458.
• Philosophy, Vol. 56, No. 218. (1981), pp. 556-573.
• Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Midgley · archived · cached
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/3751039 · archived · cached
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/3750888 · archived · cached
• Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene (ISBN-10: 0192860925) Search for this ISBN

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