THE SELFISH GENE

The point of sex is to reassort the genetic material and to aid the continuing self-replication of a long double helical molecule called DNA. Our lives are significantly determined by the need to provide convenient reproduction of a molecule few of us have ever seen.

Are we then mere DNA containers briefly employed, paid in cosmic coin, to transmit the genetic information?

Carl Sagan, Other Worlds, 1975

Perhaps one of the most important books of the late 20th century for understanding all of life is Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene.

[To Be Continued and Revised]

Sources

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976.

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