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...later chapters of his work, Dawkins introduces, almost as an afterthought, an idea that has become its own, albeit partially disowned, field. Dawkin??s thesis is simple: wherever there are self-replicating “things” of any sort that exhibit 1) heritibility of traits, 2) variation, and 3) differential reproductive success, that Darwinian evolution is the inevitable logical outcome. In other words, given these three criteria, survival of the fittest takes over and produces “things” that are more and more suited to their environments. To illustrate his point Dawkins describes...
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