"De ha valami önző, és nem tudom megmutatni, hogy mitől az,"

Lassan mondom: ME-TA-FO-RA. A gen maga nem onzo*,de mivel (Dawkins szerint) a szelekcio alapegysege, a kulso szemlelo szamara a genek tovabboroklodese olyan lehet, mintha tudatos, "onzo" viselkedesuk lenne. De nincs.

* "This book will show how both individual selfishness and individual altruism are explained by the fundamental law that I am calling gene selfishness. [...] I shall argue that the fundamental unit of selection, and therefore of self-interest, is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual. It is the gene, the unit of heredity."