What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren
This View of Life
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Genes Are Special in the Sense That They Form Lineages
You don't really need to form anything to form lineages either. I think it only really requires something that is kind of persistently present across multiple generations, which as you just say, kind of a phenotypic trait can be. And here I think you can see both Williams and Dawkins increasingly as their career is going, need more and more on genes as kind of informational. It's richly ironic that on the one hand, the concept is definitely a product of Mendelian genetics.
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