selfish gene

noun

Etymology

Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene.

Definitions

  1. The gene regarded as the primary driver and beneficiary of the evolutionary process.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for selfish gene. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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