• PNW_Doug@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    While I wouldn’t say that’s right, I also wouldn’t come right out and call it wrong either. This very much engages with the “Selfish Gene”, an heuristic model of thinking about evolution from the perspective of the gene itself instead of populations.

    As an added amusement, the book “The Selfish Gene” came out in 1976, and is the source of the word “meme,” used somewhat differently than it is now, naturally.

  • br3d@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Makes total sense: who’s working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is like the question I’ve always asked about getting sick.

      Do you produce extra mucous because your body is trying to get rid of what’s making you sick or does the illness make you produce more mucous in order to spread more easily?

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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        6 months ago

        Idk about the mucous, but a fever is definitely an attempt at killing whatever foreign pathogen is there. Hopefully a pathologist or doctor can help us here.