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The Most Controversial Idea in Biology

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The Most Controversial Idea in Biology explores how evolution is driven not by individuals but by genes competing for survival, explaining altruism, complexity, and behavior through gene-centric selection, mutation, and replication from the origin of life onward.

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Everything that is alive, including you, was built as a survival vessel for these replicators.

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