“In fact, we humans (and all other organisms) are almost selfless slaves whose entire purpose is to serve our molecular masters. (…)
If the gene-centred view is correct, then evolution is nothing at all to do with ‘us’. We are nothing more than sophisticated robots, constructed over 3.5 billion years of mutation and selection to protect self-replicating genes from an inhospitable environment” – Hanno Sauer, The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
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