“The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.”
Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941Related quotes

“In other words, a record of our past is etched into our genes.”
Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 35)
"The Tucson Zoo", p. 9
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)
Context: We are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well. We are stamped with stereotyped, unalterable patterns of response, ready to be released. And the behavior released in us, by such confrontations, is, essentially, a surprised affection. It is compulsory behavior and we can avoid it only by straining with the full power of our conscious minds, making up conscious excuses all the way. Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.
Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007), p. 2

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Source: Complexity and Postmodernism (1998), p. 86

" Speciesism https://books.google.it/books?id=Rz30CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT59" (1970). Reported in Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century by Richard D. Ryder (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011), Chapter 2.