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♦ “IT IS IN THIS SENSE THAT ALL WORKING GENETICISTS”: Gunther S. Stent, “You Can Take the Ethics Out of Altruism But You Can’t Take the Altruism Out of Ethics,” Hastings Center Report 7, no. 6 (1977): 34; and Gunther S. Stent, “DNA,” 925.
♦ “IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT LEVEL”: Seymour Benzer, “The Elementary Units of Heredity,” in W. D. McElroy and B. Glass, eds., The Chemical Basis of Heredity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957), 70.
♦ “THIS ATTITUDE IS AN ERROR OF GREAT PROFUNDITY”: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 237.
♦ “WE ARE SURVIVAL MACHINES”: Ibid., xxi.
♦ “THEY ARE PAST MASTERS OF THE SURVIVAL ARTS”: Ibid., 19.
♦ “ENGLISH BIOLOGIST RICHARD DAWKINS HAS RECENTLY RAISED”: Stephen Jay Gould, “Caring Groups and Selfish Genes,” in The Panda’s Thumb (New York: Norton, 1980), 86.
♦ “A THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD STUDENT OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR”: Gunther S. Stent, “You Can Take the Ethics Out of Altruism But You Can’t Take the Altruism Out of Ethics,” 33.
♦ “EVERY CREATURE MUST BE ALLOWED TO ‘RUN’ ITS OWN DEVELOPMENT”: Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (London: Trübner & Co, 1878), 134.
♦ “A SCHOLAR … IS JUST A LIBRARY’S WAY”: Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 346.
♦ “ANTHROPOCENTRISM IS A DISABLING VICE OF THE INTELLECT”: Edward O. Wilson, “Biology and the Social Sciences,” Daedalus 106, no. 4 (Fall 1977), 131.
♦ “IT REQUIRES A DELIBERATE MENTAL EFFORT”: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 265.
♦ “MIGHT ENSURE ITS SURVIVAL BY TENDING TO ENDOW”: Ibid., 36.
♦ “THEY DO NOT PLAN AHEAD”: Ibid., 25.
♦ “THERE IS A MOLECULAR ARCHEOLOGY IN THE MAKING”: Werner R. Loewenstein, The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 93–94.
♦ “SELECTION FAVORS THOSE GENES WHICH SUCCEED”: Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 117.
♦ DAWKINS SUGGESTS THE CASE OF A GENE: Ibid., 196–97.
♦ THERE IS NO GENE FOR LONG LEGS: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 37.
♦ HABIT OF SAYING “A GENE FOR X”: Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, 21.
♦ “ALL WE WOULD NEED IN ORDER”: Ibid., 23.
♦ “ANY GENE THAT INFLUENCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS”: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 60.
♦ “IT IS NO MORE LIKELY TO DIE”: Ibid., 34.
♦ “TODAY THE TENDENCY IS TO SAY”: Max Delbrück, “A Physicist Looks At Biology,” Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 38 (1949): 194.
11. INTO THE MEME POOL
♦ “WHEN I MUSE ABOUT MEMES”: Douglas R. Hofstadter, “On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures,” in Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (New York, Basic Books, 1985), 52.
♦ “NOW THROUGH THE VERY UNIVERSALITY OF ITS STRUCTURES”: Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (New York: Knopf, 1971), 145.
♦ “IDEAS HAVE RETAINED SOME OF THE PROPERTIES”: Ibid., 165.
♦ “IDEAS CAUSE IDEAS”: Roger Sperry, “Mind, Brain, and Humanist Values,” in New Views of the Nature of Man, ed. John R. Platt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 82.
♦ “I THINK THAT A NEW KIND”: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 192.
♦ “THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT GEORGE WASHINGTON LOOKED LIKE THEN”: Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 347.
♦ “A WAGON WITH SPOKED WHEELS”: Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991), 204.
♦ “GENES CANNOT BE SELFISH”: Mary Midgley, “Gene-Juggling,” Philosophy 54 (October 1979).
♦ “A MEME … IS AN INFORMATION PACKET”: Daniel C. Dennett, “Memes: Myths, Misunderstandings, and Misgivings,” draft for Chapel Hill lecture, October 1998, http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/MEMEMYTH.FIN.htm (accessed 7 June