Is the Gen Centred Versus the Deacon of Inclusion Fitness?

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The first time that the term selfish deed appears is in the notes that dawkins developed when he was a graduate student. He's also sometimes thought that hamilton's one of thos people wh never really finished their own revolution and never committed fully to the insight, i would say. I think under appreciated tension between ge sife and cetifitness should be xpored more well.

One of the brilliant achievements of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was to help explain apparently “purposeful” or “designed” aspects of biology in a purely mechanistic theory of unguided evolution. Features are good if they help organisms survive. But should we put organisms at the center of our attention, or the genetic information that governs those features? Arvid Ågren helps us understand the attraction of the “selfish gene” view of evolution, as well as its shortcomings. This biological excursion has deep connections to philosophical issues of levels and emergence.

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Arvid Ågren received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto. He is currently a Wenner-Gren Fellow at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. Previously he worked at Cornell and Harvard. His recent book is The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution.

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