The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins

My dad has always talked about this book with admiration and I have recently become interested in Dawkins’ sceptical activities, so it seemed the right time to finally get around to it.

Despite blinding me with science once or twice, this is a cogently explained and thoroughly convincing argument for the primacy of genes as the main unit of behavioural determinacy. Importantly, Dawkins stresses the capacity of humans to overcome our genetic programming and impose our own moral codes over Tennyson’s “nature red in tooth and claw.”