Question

Dawkins and altruism. What would Dawkins say to the notion that people are NOT altruistic.

Answer 1

Dawkins uses the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution (as opposed to the views focused on the organism and the group).

Dawkins says that his "purpose" in writing The Selfish Gene is "to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism. "Dawkins defines: X as “altruistic if it behaves in such a way as to increase another such entity's [Y] welfare at the expense of its own. Selfish behavior has exactly the opposite effect.” His scheme sees only two outcomes, selfish or altruistic, and is zero-sum: X gains by Y's loss.

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