Re: Dawkins on replicators and origin of life

From: johnhewitt22@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:52:57 -0400 (EDT)

On May 14, 6:42=A0pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:

I'm trying to locate where Dawkins says that evolution by natural
selection began when a molecule acquired the power of replication. Can
anyone help here?

--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

There is a discussion in the Selfish Gene, page 15 and onwards, but I
shouldn't think that's the first mention.

John Hewitt

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