Introducing a Book!

<The Selfish Gene>

This book "The Selfish Gene" was published

in 1976. At that time this book was a

sensation to the field of Biology. For what

the author Richard Dawkins argued was

completely different than what was

generally believed in that society at that

period.

To summarize the approach Richard Dawkins took is simply a new perspective; to look at

the matter at a very small scale, in this case genes.

Richard tried to explain the whole phenomenon of the biological society from the scale of

genes. He believes that everything that is happening around this world is due to the

selfishness of individual genes.

For example, the scenes where we see the same species helping each out such as

relation between mother and child. On the surface this might look far away from

selfishness. For they are helping 'others' not themselves. But this is where Richard

Dawkins throws the question. "Are they really 'others?'" The answer is ; "no"  By looking

from the perspective of genes the genes of the same species especially the one that are

directly connected is the same. By helping 'others' ultimately it is the same act as helping

themselves.

Like this Richard elaborates his own analysis of how he interpreted the ecosystem

through the lens of his 'gene' point of view.

Even though 30 years have passed this <The Selfish Gene> is still in the bestseller lists.

There got to be the reason for this. The reason is that his theory developed 30 years ago

still have some points that could be further elaborated in the 21th century. So to put it

into a nutshell, everyone whether they are interested in biology or not could not miss the

chance to read this fascinating book of Richard's!