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The Selfish Gene and Altruism
Natural selection can explain almost everything about the biological world including altruistic behavior. Richard Dawkins wrote that we are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve selfish molecules known as genes. A foreign publisher of my first book confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after reading it. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in the mornings.