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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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It all started with memes. I wanted to know the origin. I wanted to understand how they start, how they function, and how to generate them. I discovered that the root was The Selfish Gene – and memes were conceived as the ideological counterpart to genes. The book is long in the tooth yet as important to understanding evolution today as it ever was. It explains not just the simplicity of selfishness but also how altruism can appear as a complex solution to the simple replication problem.

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