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This View of Life Podcast
This View of Life Podcast takes a deep dive with the best and brightest thinkers on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. Hosted by This View of Life Editor-in-Chief David Sloan Wilson. Visit podcast homepage.

This View of Life takes a deep dive with the best and brightest thinkers on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. Hosted by David Sloan Wilson.
J. Arvid Agren’s book The Gene’s Eye View of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), is a highly praised scholarly account of the concept of selfish genes, which Richard Dawkins made hugely popular in 1976. Dawkins himself calls Agren’s book “the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered…he gets it right.” But what does this mean? In this nearly two hour conversation, I take a deep dive with Agren into the history and current status of the selfish gene concept. You might be surprised by how much we agree upon and how much the concept of selfish genes has been scaled down, compared to its original pretensions.Â
