Richard Dawkins never argued that people are born selfish. His most quoted, least finished book actually says almost the opposite. What it truly claims, and where critics fairly push back.

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could be harnessed to control harmful insect populations. By understanding the ...

Writing in yesterday’s Telegraph, Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum in London, headlines the claim that “The Selfish Gene is losing friends” thanks to the on-going ...

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to ...

A new study sheds light on one of genetics' most persistent mysteries: how the workings of the so-called “selfish gene” could have controlled dangerous insect ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have uncovered how to potentially control harmful insect populations by studying a "selfish gene" that manipulates inheritance The new research focuses on ...

I find the argument against Dawkins’s memes – neither passed on, nor immortal – unconvincing. Genes are not immutable; mutation of genes is a tenet of evolution. The only significant difference ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that ...