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Politics : Evolution
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (1296)4/20/2006 7:21:31 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
Certainly. From my original post:

‘the total prostitution of all animal life, including Man and all his airs and graces, to the blind purposiveness of these minute virus-like substances’, genes.

This is a thumbnail-sketch, and an accurate one, of the contents of The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins. It was not written by Dawkins, but he quoted it with manifest enthusiasm in a defence of The Selfish Gene which he wrote in this journal in 1981.

As you can see he is stating a proposition which goes far beyond saying something with a horse's genes will look like a horse.
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