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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

Science | 2026-05-20 at 14:00 UTC | Source: www.newscientist.com
Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s desk – and life was never the same
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