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Genetics and Health

August 13th, 2006

Gene Talk #9: Thought Experiments

Bryan Appleyard at Thought Experiments writes of Terrorists, Genes and Metaphors:
…The worst case of an uncontrolled metaphor was Richard Dawkins’ ’selfish gene’. No gene can be selfish nor can even appear to be acting selfishly, the word is quite meaningless. (For a full analysis of the damage done by this metaphor and its entirely unscientific […]

By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD -- 4 comments