The Selfish Gene

Originally I was discouraged to read the selfish gene but know I have finally started, it peaked my interest slowly in the fist chapter as it proceeded to explain how natural selection works and how the first animal came to be. He poses a very common question, why do humans exist? He tells us that Darwin after hundreds of years f uncertainty gave us the best answer so far, evolution. This commonly accepted theory is why we exist how we became the humans we know today. “The consequences of the evolution theory for a particular issue” ( pg 10) he will proceed to explain to us the evolution of the genes of selfishness and altruism. He says that that a species doesn’t evolve, instead each gene evolves by its self. He also makes clear to us that selfishness isn’t really defined there for he says we might see an act as apparently selfish but not with complete certainty. Many animals sacrifice themselves for others, but there are also many organisms that eat babies or do things apparently selfish says Dawkins. Even thou an animal might do a sacrifice for its group Dawkins tries to explain to us that he is just self-protecting himself by protecting his genes and his species future.