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Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Origins of Virtue
The Origins of Virtue was Matt's first introduction to selfish gene theory. Richard Dawkins wrote in The Selfish Gene that we are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. When I first grasped it, I slept badly for many nights, trying to find some alternative that did not so roughly challenge my sense of good and evil.
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