📚 1 Books mentioned in "Life After Evergreen, Evolutionary Biology, and Gender | Bret Weinstein | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report" of The Rubin Report
Podcast: The Rubin Report
Episode: Life After Evergreen, Evolutionary Biology, and Gender | Bret Weinstein | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report
Published on November 21, 2018
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The Selfish Gene
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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
Bret Weinstein identifies Richard Dawkins' book 'The Selfish Gene' as the last major piece of theoretical progress in evolutionary biology, specifically highlighting its introduction of the concept of cultural evolution and memes. He then discusses his disagreement with Dawkins' perspective presented in the book.