Book: 20210612 to 20210727, "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins
20210613 - Why are people? Natural selection has at least three levels: gene, individual, group. Sometimes selfish is critical, sometimes altruistic let the individual or group survive. Normally I only notice the competence among individuals and groups, but this book implies that the competence among genes decide everything. 20210614 - The replicators The environment of early stage on earth is cruel. What we did is just guessing based on the theory of current age. We have to say that it is possible that all lives came from the same ancestor. After around 3 billion years of random changes and natural selection, it finally went into multi-cell form. 20210620 - Immortal coils What is gene? It's a biological pattern. This "pattern" can replicate itself, and build better survival machines. We can find this pattern in our chromosomes and cistron. Every creature has a huge gene pool. Only a small part of the genes in the pool take effects. Natural selection decides which group...