The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition (Oxford Landmark Science) — Family planning

1. 1. Wynne-Edwards is credited with provoking clearer thinking about selection by being unequivocally wrong, though Dawkins thinks this credit is overdone.
2. 2. Group selection is even more out of favor among biologists now than when the first edition was published, despite a generation mislabeling kin selection as group selection.
3. 3. John Maynard Smith and others settled the group selection issue a decade ago, but Dawkins finds it irritating that two generations and nations are divided by a common language.