He is the author of many books including the international best-sellers "The Selfish Gene", "The Blind Watchmaker", and "Climbing Mount Improbable." QUESTION: Professor Dawkins, could you explain ...

Even in human evolution, selfish genes, as Richard Dawkins described in The Selfish Gene, drive behaviors that ensure the continuation of one's genetic lineage. However, paradoxically, cooperation ...

His vision is very distinctly set against the 'selfish gene' picture associated most notably with Richard Dawkins and evident in an extreme form in 'evolutionary psychology'. For Professor Dover ...

It has been nearly three decades since Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene popularized the notion that genes could act in their own self-interest, sometimes at huge cost to the organism encoding them.

Geneticists from the Universities of Manchester and Bath are celebrating the discovery of the elusive ‘greenbeard gene’ that helps explain why ... “greenbeard gene” in his 1976 best seller The Selfish ...