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The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard

The thesis that we are all nothing more than vehicles for a number of “selfish genes” has accordingly entered deeply into the simian gabble of academic life, where together with materialism and moral relativism it now seems as self-evident as the law of affirmative action.

not very useful, nor correct from an epistemic point of view. It applies to populations (Darwinian), and is completely silent if you consider a single living organism at a time

Truth does not belong to anyone; it is the outcome of the scientific exchange of written ideas.