GoKawiilEssay argues Dawkins' 'Selfish Gene' needs updating 50 years on
A historian of biology reflecting on rereading 'The Selfish Gene' decades after first encountering it as a graduate student argues the book's gene-centric, deterministic framing of evolution no longer matches current science. She contends that newer research across disciplines has revealed a more complex picture of organisms as active participants rather than passive 'vehicles' for genes.