The Selfish Gene

Dawkins, R. (1976). The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1976

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL973965M/The_Selfish_Gene

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions

  • This sourceIntroduces the 'meme' as a unit of cultural transmission propagating by imitation, a gene-analogue for the spread of conventions and ideas. Bibliography-only (Tier C); not cited in the body.

• Green-Beard Effect
  • The pattern was named in evolutionary biology for a hypothetical gene that simultaneously coded for a phenotypic signal — a green beard — and for altruistic behavior toward anyone displaying that signal.

    This sourceIntroduces the green-beard thought experiment — a hypothetical gene coding both a phenotypic signal and altruism toward its bearers.

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