Darwinism

You published Selfish Gene in 1976. Why? And why then? Was it the timing? I don't know. I mean, I think it's a very clear idea. You mentioned when Darwin came out that there were churchmen that bought onto his thesis. Well nowadays most sophisticated, educated churchmen have no problem with it. There are plenty of unsophisticated, relatively uneducated, religious people who take the book of Genesis literally. They had been brought up and chartered onwards to believe that every word of the Bible is true. But if you talk to a bishop or an archbishop or a Muslim, the gentleman of the Anglican or Catholic Church at least they were quite