He has written several popular science books, including The Selfish Gene and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.

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Her argument that the selfish-gene model is being superseded by other forms of evolutionary explanation relies on an overinterpretation of those alternatives.

ECONOMIST: Richard Dawkins under fire

And, in any case, gene regulation happens under the control of genes that are as selfish as any others.

ECONOMIST: Richard Dawkins under fire

This is interesting in as much as it shows how such thinking has changed over the years, but her real purpose seems to be to create doubt in the reader's mind about whether selection at the level of the gene is the only mechanism of evolution, which is what Mr Dawkins and his fellow selfish-geners believe.

ECONOMIST: Richard Dawkins under fire