Over the holidays, I finished re-reading Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, a book that reshaped our understanding of evolution. Nearly 50 years after its 1976 publication, its insights remain relevant—not just for biology, but also for behaviour, cooperation, and inheritance. Dawkins’ concept of “selfish” genes as replicators, rather than literal selfishness, offers a lens that reveals surprising connections to agriculture, plant breeding, and policy.
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