Is There a Co Evolution Between Genes and Meams?

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I wouldn't rule that out in the way i would rule out extended penotypic effects on styles of architecture. An architect sees a particular way of of decorating the tops of pillars or something that looks neat, i'll copy thet um and so that could spread in a kind of quasi genetic way. Shor that that would be memetic selection alike. But you are sceptical of attempts to analyze selection at the level of of groups or something like that,. right? I mean, i'm not at all familiar with all the details fof i know there's a long running debate bout jean selection, kin selection, group selection, explanations of altruism, et cetera

Evolution has equipped species with a variety of ways to travel through the air — flapping, gliding, floating, not to mention jumping really high. But it hasn’t invented jet engines. What are the different ways that heavier-than-air objects might be made to fly, and why does natural selection produce some of them but not others? Richard Dawkins has a new book on the subject, Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution. We take the opportunity to talk about other central issues in evolution: levels of selection, the extended phenotype, the role of adaptation, and how genes relate to organisms.

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Richard Dawkins received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Oxford. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, where he was previously the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He is an internationally best-selling author, whose books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

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