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Title: Keep your friends close....
Review: This is must reading, but mainly to know what to expect from those who will take up these old and tired arguments about how evolution works at the level of the gene. I get tired of reading popular science books where one author pats another author on the back who pats their author-friend on the back, and so on, in a bought of reciprocal altruism. The Selfish Gene sits at the top of a giant chain letter, where those at the bottom of the chain (the readers) pay the price. When reviews are posted here saying that Dawkins' ideas have stood the test of time, they are correct, but only in the popsci circles. Real peer-reviewed papers in biological journals say otherwise, Ridley notwithstanding.
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