The Selfish Gene

“the same guy who coined the term meme in his book the selfish gene from 1976 ”

“take someone like richard dawkins the evolutionary biologist who in the preface to his landmark book the selfish gene wrote we are survival machines ”

“i mean richard dawkins wrote about it in the selfish gene and that's a very bad book ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“and the you know the selfish gene and so on matt and i big fans of that that book and and actually his evolutionary writing in in general ”

“richard dawkins wrote this book the selfish gene which argues that altruism is an illusion ”

“and that's the idea of docking the selfish gene now the genes be can become to be selfish ”

“a bit like reading uh the selfish gene ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“so one thing is just the fish gene this i should understand uh it actually changed uh it actually helped me with the question like whether i want to have kids or not ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s

“the selfish gene is like one of my favorite books ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“you know in nineteen seventy eight i think richard dawkins published selfish gene ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“he always tells people to read uh richard dawkins qu ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“there's actually a chapter in dawkins' sort of selfish gene on hawks and doves and evolutionally stable populations of different behavioral strategies ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s