“They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”

— Richard Dawkins, book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 2. The replicators

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

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