Dan Agin has boldly waved selfish genes goodbye in his report
on my article with E.O. Wilson in the November 3 issue of New
Scientist, which is a digest of a more comprehensive article
that will appear in the December issue of Quarterly Review of
Biology titled "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of
Sociobiology." Agin´s farewell provoked a flurry of comments
that raise the issue of what selfish genes, and memes, really
mean.
The problem with these words is that they have both a broad...
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