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About this title:- As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.
- This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.
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According to the 2021 Census, 27.05% of London's population identified as atheist.
Other religions in London include:
Christianity: 40.66%
Islam: 14.99%
No response: 7%
Hinduism: 5.15%
Judaism: 1.65%
Sikhism: 1.64%
Buddhism: 1.0%
London has many centers of worship for different faiths. However, it has a lower percentage of atheists and non-religious people than the rest of the UK. This is likely because London has a higher percentage of people who practice other religions, including Muslims and Hindus.
The UK is among the least likely countries in the world to believe in god. In 2020, the British Social Attitudes Survey found that 53% of British adults had no religion. The proportion of people who say they are "very or extremely non-religious" has more than doubled in the past two decades.
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He adopted "meme" from the Greek word "mimeme," meaning "something imitated" or "an imitation," to exemplify the idea of cultural transmission by which memes are essentially adopted or imitated (ie replicated), then spread thru society and shape our shared understanding of the world and in turn influence society and lead to evolution in culture. Just as ideas are imitated: slightly changed and adopted leading to ongoing evolution of ideas.
(Note: also seen with French word "même")
Truly Fascinating! Genes and ideas/behaviors are the true drivers of evolution, not the organism itself
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He adopted "meme" from the Greek word "mimeme," meaning "something imitated" or "an imitation," to exemplify the idea of cultural transmission by which memes are essentially adopted or imitated (ie replicated), then spread thru society and shape our shared understanding of the world and in turn influence society and lead to evolution in culture. Just as ideas are imitated: slightly changed and adopted leading to ongoing evolution of ideas.
(Note: also seen with French word "même")
Truly Fascinating! Genes and ideas/behaviors are the true drivers of evolution, not the organism itself
Probably talking to myself at this point … nice to occasionally step away from which deal is next and iexpand our minds.
including humans?
(assuming no significant destruction to environment)
The seflish gene in me
Has finally come into being
It's teaching me how to be mean
And that's a sorry, sorry state to be in
including humans?
(assuming no significant destruction to environment)
The Selfish Gene is a good book, though it's definitely less of a lay person's science book. It's not incredibly hard to understand, but Dawkins later works are more entertaining reads and are better for people who are less familiar with evolution and biological sciences. "The Greatest Show on Earth", "Unweaving the Rainbow", and "The Blind Watchmaker" are probably more interesting to most people who are interested in learning about evolution. I'd recommend those unless you are actually interested in the idea of memes and the specific topic of this book.
The Selfish Gene is a good book, though it's definitely less of a lay person's science book. It's not incredibly hard to understand, but Dawkins later works are more entertaining reads and are better for people who are less familiar with evolution and biological sciences. "The Greatest Show on Earth", "Unweaving the Rainbow", and "The Blind Watchmaker" are probably more interesting to most people who are interested in learning about evolution. I'd recommend those unless you are actually interested in the idea of memes and the specific topic of this book.
Perhaps even unrecognizable from today's?
(assuming our species survives that long)
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According to the 2021 Census, 27.05% of London's population identified as atheist.
Other religions in London include:
Christianity: 40.66%
Islam: 14.99%
No response: 7%
Hinduism: 5.15%
Judaism: 1.65%
Sikhism: 1.64%
Buddhism: 1.0%
London has many centers of worship for different faiths. However, it has a lower percentage of atheists and non-religious people than the rest of the UK. This is likely because London has a higher percentage of people who practice other religions, including Muslims and Hindus.
The UK is among the least likely countries in the world to believe in god. In 2020, the British Social Attitudes Survey found that 53% of British adults had no religion. The proportion of people who say they are "very or extremely non-religious" has more than doubled in the past two decades.
Chart: The UK's Faithless | Statista
May 11, 2022 — 45 percent of Brits would describe themselves as either atheists or non-religious, according to new data from Statista...
Statista
Religion in London - Wikipedia
London has centres of worship for many faiths. According to the 2021 Census, the largest religions are Christianity (40.66%), foll...
Wikipedia
UK secularism on rise as more than half say they have no religion | Religion | The Guardian
Jul 12, 2019
The Guardian
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