Comment: His thesis are mostly unclear. The idea is nice but hard to track.

Summary: The Selfish Gene explains the process of evolution in biology using genes as its basic unit, showing how they manifest in the form of organisms, what they do to ensure their own survival, how they program our brains, which strategies have worked best throughout history and what makes humans so special in this context.

Table of contents

• Why are people?
• The replicators
• Immortal coils
• The gene machine
• Aggression : stability and the selfish machine
• Genesmanship
• Family planning
• Battle of the generations
• Battle of the sexes
• You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours
• Memes : the new replicators
• Nice guys finish first
• The long reach of the gene.

1. Sometimes mutually altruistic behaviors benefit the genes of two different organisms.
2. Humans have managed to splice off culture with its own evolutionary process.