“… a gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.”

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

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