# Richard Dawkins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-dawkins/371449>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 4, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-dawkins/371449 "2006-09-04T22:42:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-dawkins/371449/21 "2006-09-08T18:02:30Z")

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> Well, it’s not as though Dawkins isn’t just as guilty with respect to his “selfish gene”.

I don’t see it that way. The SG wasn’t presented as clearing away a failed theory, but rather a new perspective on the same process that gave insight into how new realizations about the sorts of things floating around in DNA and broadening the scope of what evolution applied to.

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