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RICHARD DAWKINS - The Selfish Gene & The God Delusion: Understanding Nature, Humanity & Consciousness

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Darwinism Is a Meme, a Replicator

Darwinism is all about the survival of replicating entities, replicating information. DNA happens to be a very powerful replicator which accounts for the whole of evolution on this planet. But I want to make the point that Darwinism is probably more general than that. And if there's life elsewhere in the universe, I bet there is. If we ever find it, it will be Darwinian life. In which case there must be some equivalent of DNA. Whether that would be a charisma or a certain trait. Something like that might, you might be able to do it along those lines. That might cause the behavior in the opposite sex or the same sex or get certain parts of that

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