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“Professor Dawkins himself has a knack for the memorable metaphor. His great book The Selfish Gene is a case in point. People can be literally selfish, but not genes. Indeed Dawkins does not even think that there are genes for selfishness. Okay, he wrote: \u201cThe gene is the basic unit of selfishness.\u201d But he didn\u2019t really mean it. Not literally. The author of Genesis said that the universe was created in six days. But who would take that literally except some crazy fundamentalists? Oops \u2013 and Dawkins.”<\/p>\n

Marvellous.<\/a>
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