Recently I happened to listen the talks presented at the 30th anniversary of the book "The selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. I haven't read the book yet, but still I got some idea, what is it all about. I have ordered the book and looking forward read it.
It is all about the gene centered theory of evolution. "The evolution occurs not just to favor the species, but to favor the gene; we are just a mechanism created by genes in order to make sure a successful and safe propagation of gene by transcription and transmutation." This is the basic idea of the book. We are just machines controlled by this tiny little genes and now we try to over power them by human genome project and genetic engineering. This is something similar to the situation, when the machines took control over us(like in the movie Matrix). But now we are machines fighting against our masters, so the matrix is reversed.
Some people criticized that this book is really depressing. This book arguers that human life is nothing and its just a traveling vehicles for genes. In a scientific stand point this may be true. If that's the way nature is going to work, we should accept it. Any way let me first read the book and then I'll give complete review.
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