Co-Existance

Every species depends on its own species to survive. We need always more of our own, we need to be able to mate and live in a society. Even in asexual breeding the parent wants more like himself. There will never be a species that consists of a single animal because no organism can live forever. We are all co-existent we all have a relation and need each other and sometimes even other organisms to survive.

Dawkins explains how this work on different species. And even in humans we need each other even if sometimes we don’t think so. As he explained with birds there will also exist always human cheaters (robbers, murderers, and criminals). Cheater can also alter our society when they disrupt the function we play for one another. Its simple logic that if you destroy another human’s resources then you will also be unable to get those resources from him again. It is hard to express that we cant live without one another since we don’t notice we need certain things that we cant give to ourselves. In order for us to survive we work as a team day to day laying functions in our societies.

When Life Gives You Lemons

Dawkins explains how and why males and females are faithful in chapter 10. He says that they do whatever benefits themselves and the hole world of animals, plants, and organisms works around this thought. Females in a big generality put more effort in raising a child. Even from a beginning pregnancy, the use of ovules and labor show how hard mot females have to work to pass on their offspring. Once they have to put this much effort they cant spend time being promiscuous and might as well protect and devote themselves to their child (their genes) in able for their genes to be passed on, for him to have a lengthy life, and have in turn a lot of healthy offspring. We all “ make the best use of opportunities offered by the sort of body” (pg145 ch 9). Women try to pick good genes with which to ally her own” ( pg 157 ch 9 ) this is why breeding is a true battle of the sexes, you want to pass on your genes with the best traits available whether this means picking mate, being promiscuous or loyal.

23 Enigma

The 23 enigma, this is a world correlation which troubles many peoples minds. They say that the number 23 relates to everything and everything in the world. People have gone crazy for this theory and others have spent their lives searching for its answer. To my perception Dawkins has the same enigma but instead of a number he relates everything to how genes fight, love and die to preserve themselves. To me you see want you want to see. When I see 10, 10 and 3 off course you could derive and see a 23 in many ways but you could just as possibly have 13, 17, 6.66, 1000 and many other numbers. Lately Dawkins as tried to explain to me that the selfish gene is all around us and I am finally starting to believe him.

Socialist Species

In a perfect situation we would all work for the good of the species, we would all be altruistic and we would work as one population. We could distribute food and water equally along the world. We could help each other out and participate in a n active world community. We could spread our money equally among humans and divide the living territories equally. We would be the first “socialist species”, it could be wonderful, and all the humans would have the necessary to survive. Sadly this is a utopist unreachable idea, if the selfish gene does exist then this is why we wouldn’t be able to achieve it. In chapter 8 Dawkins talks about how some species help the community thinking about themselves, well then humans sometimes do the opposite damaging the species for their own welfare. Millions of humans have way more than the necessary to survive, but people in the world still die of hunger every day. We rather waste our resources than share the. It isn’t bad to be competitive and want the best for our families but some people abuse this privilege. “Individuals who have too many children are penalized because the whole population goes extinct” (Pg 117) is an overstatement for what happens in humans, but never the less we should all always be conscious and considerate of our surroundings and our fellow humans. Sharing is caring.