Prediction a complex world a chancy business. Every decision a surviva — Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene

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Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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