From: Xela@yabbs
To: arachnoi@yabbs
Subject: re: selfish genes are individua
Date: Thu Jun 30 00:13:51 1994

You are focusing on the individual, attributing its behavior to the 
individual and NOT the gene which created it.  Read the book again; the 
gene does whatever it can, either through individual or mass selection, to 
propagate itself to the higest degree.  This can include communal 
behavior, such as suicidal altruism (in the case of worker bees) which 
could hardly be selected on an individual basis.

I'll say it again: Read the friggin' book; you really did not get the 
point.

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