The Selfish Gene

“I have to start with a confession before last week i' never read your book to selfish genene I have now and I was quite shocked at how eye openening the book was for me”

“I have to start with a confession: before last week, I'd never read your book, The Selfish Gene. I have now, and I was quite shocked at how eye-opening the book was for me.”

“One of the most striking chapters in The Selfish Gene is chapter 11 on memes, and I've often heard people say, 'Oh, Richard Dawkins created the term meme,' but I always honestly thought of memes as being somewhat trivial because now they're very much associated with internet fads.”

“About the same time you were writing The Selfish Gene, Gary Becker was writing a book on the economics of the family, and a lot of the same trade-offs are in place.”

“So you talk in The Selfish Gene about the quantity of children and the trade-off between more offspring and higher investment and so better outcomes per child.”

“Next week we're back with a brand new episode featuring evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins; his books 'The Selfish Gene' and 'The God Delusion' are two of the most influential popular science books of all time.”

“In two weeks, we have an exciting new episode featuring Richard Dawkins, famed author of 'The Selfish Gene' and 'The God Delusion,' amongst others. His name frequently emerges in our discussions, including today’s episode, and I've yearned to meet him for quite some time, which will finally happen in two weeks!”

“The reception was overwhelmingly positive, and Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, wrote one of the most effusive prefaces I've ever seen for a later edition of the book, which must have felt gratifying.”

“so I was thinking about this in relationship to Dawkins theory of The Selfish Gene”

“So I was thinking about this in relationship to Dawkins' theory of The Selfish Gene; it's like the implication of The Selfish Gene is that reproduction takes privacy and that there's no difference between reproduction and sex. But that's not true; there's a big difference between reproduction and sex, especially among human beings because we're high-investment parents.”

“because his book The Selfish Gene what what what would you say the the the the sense that that desire is there is implicit in the text and so that has very Troublesome metaphysical implications”

“the bitter pill is in chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene where he presents the concept of memes”

“The bitter pill is in Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene, where he presents the concept of memes. For the first time, he says that memes are a new primeval suit; he sees it as a new evolutionary realm where creatures are beginning to form.”

“Um the selfish gene provides us a mechanism. It's basically a synthesis of what we understand about adaptive evolution.”

“but the last piece of theoretical progress actually involves Dawkins Selfish Gene we essentially encapsulates a synthesis that does lots of things including brings a proper theory of cultural evolution online... so to the extent that we did not have a way of discussing cultural evolution prior to the Selfish Gene Dawkins introduction of the concept of memes”

“the last piece of theoretical progress actually involves Dawkins Selfish Gene”

“chapter 11 he introduces the word meme he introduces the concept he sets us in motion”

“and even folks uh like um oh selfish gene richard dawkins he writes in the 1970s that he finds it inconceivable that consciousness uh has no functional value”

“uh this i'm going here from richard dawkins sthe selfish gene you know to i love the early dawkins”

“but the dawkins in the selfish gene um is very thoughtful”

“tell us why you reject Richard Dawkins his vision of The Selfish Gene as his book was titled”

“but things like the right Queen selfish Gene right in many different Freakonomics and everyone had to read all those books to be intellectually illiterate”

“The math has supported that for a very long time, but evolutionary biologists are still resistant to it, mostly because many of them grew up reading Richard Dawkins as a teenager, and they feel like their mission in their intellectual life is to rediscover that buzz, and this is the way to do it in birds. So Richard Dawkins is”

“we think that genes are selfish and that explains everything”

“new book published by one of the professors that was about to teach me it turned out his name was richard dawkins the book was called the selfish gene and that sent those hairs up on the back of my neck reading it”

“I had a very Vivid experience first term at University new book published by one of the professors that was about to teach me it turned out his name was Richard Dawkins The book was called The Selfish Gene”

“I was very impacted by the selfish Gene I thought that was a really good book that helped me understand altruism as an example and where it comes from and just realizing that you know the selection is in the level of genes was a huge insight for me at the time and it sort of like cleared up a”

“I was very impacted by 'The Selfish Gene.' I thought that was a really good book that helped me understand altruism as an example and where it comes from, and just realizing that, you know, the selection is in the level of genes was a huge insight for me at the time, and it sort of like cleared up a”

“and so the dna if you ask where does dna come from and you can go all the way back to richard dawkins and uh the selfish gene hypotheses”

“And so, the DNA—if you ask where does DNA come from, and you can go all the way back to Richard Dawkins and the selfish gene hypothesis— The way I look at DNA, though, is it is not a moment in time; it assumes the context of the body and the environment in which it's going to live.”

“First advanced this hypothesis in the preface, in 1976 to Dawkins' book, The Selfish Gene.”

“in 1976 to Dawkins' book, The Selfish Gene.”

“and yeah because it's it's so clearly it's like the selfish gene with darkest”

“so correct me if I'm wrong but in your book selfish Gene the the gene centered view of evolution of allows us to think of the physical organisms as just the medium through which the software of our genetics and the ideas sort of propagate”

“richard richard dawkins is the author of the book called the selfish gene and he's not one of my favorite people because he's a he's a materialist reductionist”

“I deploy a concept in this book that I actually got from richard dawkins richard richard dawkins is the author of the book called the selfish gene”

“Richard Dawkins two books the blind watchmaker and The Selfish Gene or enormous Li influential partly for mainly for the content but also for the writing style”

“going back to Richard Dawkins his famous book The Selfish Gene where he posed the question how could niceness and generosity and cooperation evolve given that in Darwinian competition you'd expect the the most aggressive the most selfish to predominate”

“so this is Dawkins argument in The Selfish Gene that that the gene is the is this is the thing we should be focused on not the body”

“science doesn't tell me to uh to uh do anything against my self-interest the selfish Gene written by an atheist that we we are we're composed of selfish genes”

“So, a meme is a term that Richard Dawkins coined in his book uh in 1976, selfish gene.”

“So a meme is a term that Richard Dawkins coined in his book uh in 1976, selfish gene.”

“internet meme Dawkins concept 1972 right internet 19 that was that book that he had right the selfish gene it's what was it in that that dancing baby was coming up”

“In the concluding chapter of the first edition of The Selfish Gene, I cast around for another example of a replicator. I wasn't then aware of computer viruses; otherwise, I might have chosen the computer virus as my analogy.”

“obviously you know with Richard Dawkins said the theory The Selfish Gene”

“and that's I think shows you that we're not as in a Darwinistic model or some of the ideas derived from Darwinism rather like The Selfish Gene and the Richard Dawkins idea that people just want to survive and we just want to kill them [ __ ] and you know and this is what propels us forward”

“this is the basis of Richard Dawkins work for example his book The Selfish Gene is based on that model”

“He wrote this book in 1976 called 'The Selfish Gene,' and he took the word meme from the root of memo, mimic! And Wartman has this great quote summing it up, which I don't know, like we’re going straight to our pal Wartman here because he sums it up the best, I think! The quote is basically a meme is”

“At its center is this idea of memes: a simple definition is a funny image that spreads virally, and the deeper definition was originally by Richard Dawkins, who introduced the idea of memes as concepts that spread in society in a way akin to genes.”

“So you've written – I mean I have a list here of, like, all your books; you've been out of control, but not as much as some people. Was The Selfish Gene your first book? Yes, back in 1976.”

“If I may, so start off The Selfish Gene. Natural selection chooses between genes; genes are the only thing. The information contained in genes, digital information is the only thing that goes from generation to generation; that which survives is information, digital information.”

“You came up with the word meme; I know it was you. That was in The Selfish Gene. You invented the word, and people long forgot.”

“We kind of refer to Richard Dawkins' idea of a meme because cancel culture is very effective.”

“I tweeted out about Richard Dawkins recently, and I talked to Richard Dawkins, and I actually admire him. I liked his books; they taught me a lot, including some of his essays.”

“so everything about a body can be regarded as I called it in in the selfish Gene I called it a survival machine”

“Everything about a body can be regarded as, in my terminology from 'The Selfish Gene', a survival machine.”

“Richard Dawkins is both a distinguished scholar of zoology and evolutionary biology and a remarkably successful popularizer of scientific ideas through his bestselling books, including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.”

“In 2017, the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's Academy of Sciences, conducted a public poll asking readers to name the most influential science book of all time. The winner was The Selfish Gene.”

“next week we're back with a brand new episode featuring evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins his books the selfish Gene and The God Delusion are two of the most influential popular science books of all time”

“he's the author of The Selfish genan and The God Delusion as well as many other influential books”

“You can even turn things upside down a little bit in the same spirit that Dawkins did with selfish genes. They talked about genes having a kind of agency and reproducing, sometimes even at the expense of the larger organism.”

“and Richard Dawkins who's the author of The Selfish Gene wrote one of the most over-the-top prefaces I've ever seen for a later edition of the book that must have felt really good”

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