From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mclure@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: A Chicken/Egg problem - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2700 Posted: Sun Aug 15 00:54:48 1982 Received: Fri Aug 20 05:09:28 1982 #R:mi-cec:-12500:sri-unix:1300001:000:497 sri-unix!mclure Aug 15 00:47:00 1982 Dawkins' THE SELFISH GENE has been discredited and should be read as science fiction (as he actually mentions in the foreward). The idea that genes can exist for specific traits, as Dawkins implies, is anathema to most biologists. Much of Dawkins' speculations rest on this idea. However, I felt the book was valuable in one respect: his emotionally overwhelming description of the origin of life. Excerpts of these passages were reprinted in Hofstadter and Dennett's THE MIND'S EYE. Stuart