Tag: selfish genes

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel universe, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork}

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, atheism, benevolence, Charles Darwin, creation myth, Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, evil, Gaza, genes, genocide, good, Hamas, Holocaust, human nature, humanity, innocents, Israel, Moral Law, morality, music, natural selection, neurotransmitters, Raoul Wallenberg, rape, relativism, selfish genes, slaughter, sterilization, William Shakespeare}

From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, epigenetics, evolution, gene expression, genes, Hox genes, melting pot, mitochondrial DNA, Müller cells, On the Origin of Species, optic nerve, orphan genes, retina, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, Technion, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, unit of selection}

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, Borgs, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Starships, Sweden, transposable elements, transposons, Uppsala University}

Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

_{David Coppedge
April 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, co-evolution, conjugation, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, degeneration, devolution, evolution, genes, Gram-negative bacteria, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nature (journal), proteins, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, T3SS, The Miracle of Man, University College London}

Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”

_{David Coppedge
July 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, Hesiod, James Le Fanu, Mary Midgley, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, Odysseus, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus}

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

_{Neil Thomas
September 13, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

10}

If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Crusades, designer, fiction, hospital, human origins, jesus, myths, religion, Roman Catholic, Sapiens review, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, selfish genes, unguided evolution, Yuval Noah Harari}

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

_{Casey Luskin
July 26, 2021

Faith & Science

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Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›

Nanoparticles destroying cancer cells, nanoparticles cancer therapy, cancer cell surrounded by nanoparticles killing the tumor 3d rendering

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 3, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __nedited, apoptosis, cell biology, cell death, self-sacrifice, selfish genes}

Biologist Ann Gauger: Apoptosis (Cell Death) Is an Enigma for Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2017

Biology, Evolution

1}

Sarah Chaffee and Discovery Institute biologist Ann Gauger have been conducting a multipart conversation about the cell. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, DNA code, genes, junk DNA, Richard Dawkins, scientific advance, selfish genes, simulations}

Richard Dawkins’s Publisher Has a Cute Idea, but Biomorphs Appeal More as Nostalgia than Science

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

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The biomorphs are "digital animals...grounded in 1970s assumptions," long outdated. Read More ›

The very smart dog studying old books in library

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 4, 2015

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, agency, alphabet, altruism, animal behavior, animal intelligence, Animal Minds (series), automaton, bees, communication, ethology, evolutionary ethics, free will, grammar, group selection, jellyfish, reasoning, selfish genes, selfishness, symbolic thinking}

What Can We Hope to Learn About Animal Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 4, 2015

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

11}

If we can't even define our own consciousness, can we say whether a different type of life form has consciousness or a mind? Read More ›