This led to life as we know it today, with each living creature a “survival machine" for its genes.īetter-equipped genes made-and make-for better-equipped organisms. Then a molecule managed to replicate itself, and then became more complex, and the gene was born. In fact, Dawkins’s proposition is that pure altruistic behaviour has never helped anyone in the history of any species. Altruistic behaviour happens only when individuals gang up for purely genetically selfish purposes that species and societies carry on, and perchance, thrive. It is about making the individual secure, and the individual is merely a vehicle for its genes.
The fundamental argument that The Selfish Gene makes is that the natural selection process in the evolution of living beings is not about making the species, community or group secure. A better term, he thought, would have been “the immortal gene". In fact, Dawkins later wrote that his choice of the word “selfish" was wrong, since it attributed an anthropomorphic quality to what is essentially a bunch of chemicals. This does not mean that genes are sentient they are not.
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