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aka Immortal Gene

An individual organism is a throwaway Survival Machine for the self-replicating coded information which it contains. - Richard Dawkins

**Gene**: A pattern of DNA whose copies exist inside creatures
and determine one trait. The *unit* of natural selection.


Interesting: How Inclusive fitness can be seen in memes



things that are better at reproducing are more likely to reproduce

