I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a the…

Richard Dawkins
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I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition, p.191, OUP Oxford
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I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition, p.191, OUP Oxford

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