Stated another way, the selfish gene concept holds that natural selection takes place at the gene level. From there, Jarvis describes Dawkins’s selfish gene concept - the idea that a gene can be seen as a “selfish unit” that exploits an organism to carry out its own process of replication. Here, he outlines four key points in The Origin of Species, while paying special attention to one challenge Darwin faced: the Cambrian explosion. He first describes the origin of the universe and the history of Earth, and moves on to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Jarvis, who holds a PhD in biology from the University of Cape Town (where he focused on zoology), takes his reader on a historical journey. Michael Jarvis considers that question, asking whether recent findings in biology match the predictions of Dawkins’s selfish gene concept. In his recent book, Selfish Genes in ICU?, Dr. Nearly half a century later, we’re entitled to wonder how the work has held up.
Photo credit: Mufid Majnun, via Unsplash.īiologist Richard Dawkins came to prominence in 1976 with his book The Selfish Gene.
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