The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipu…

Richard Dawkins
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The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together ✨ Richard Dawkins (2016). The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, p.403, Oxford University Press
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