Book: The selfish gene

Under certain special circumstances, a gene is best able to achieve its own selfish goals by encouraging a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.

Blind faith can justify anything. If a man worships another deity, or even if it is in their worship of the same deity has a different ritual, blind faith can sentence him to death on the cross, on the stake, the sword of the Crusader, from a shot on one of the streets of Beirut or the explosion in one of the bars of Belfast. Memes of blind faith have their own, not knowing pity distribution methods; this applies not only to religion but also to patriotism and politics.

Many children and even some adults believe that they will incur after the death of the horrible tortures if they fail to comply with the requirements of the Church. This is a particularly nasty method of persuasion, causing people a strong psychological suffering in the middle ages and retained its influence even today. But it is extremely effective. One might think that this method was invented by the Machiavellian clergy who are specially trained in psychological methods of influence.

As I said, the female is also advantageous to the courtship process, the male brought her food.
In birds is usually considered as a kind of return to the juvenile behavior on the part of females. Begging for food from the male, she accompanies this movement, typical for young birds. It was assumed that such behavior automatically attract a male, just as the man seems attractive when a grown woman babbles or purses her lips like a child.

Since one male could theoretically produce enough sperms to service a harem of 100 females, one would assume that the ratio of females and males in animal populations should be 100:1. You can Express it like this: the male "cheaper", and females are of great "value" for the species.

People who have more children than they are able to grow probably in most cases too ignorant to be accused of malicious exploitation. As for powerful institutions and leaders who knowingly incite to the many children, they, I think, is not so naive.

Genes exert their effects by regulating protein synthesis. This is a very powerful way to impact the world, but the method is slow. For months we have patiently pulling the protein strings, to create the embryo.

Viruses consist of pure DNA (or similar self-replicating molecule) surrounded by a protein coat. They are all parasites. It is assumed that they arose out of the "rebellious" genes that were freed and now travel from body to body directly through the air, rather than the more traditional way - in such "crews", as the sperm and egg. If so, we could equally well see ourselves as a colony of viruses.

Genes do indirectly regulate the construction of organisms, and the influence is one-way: acquired characteristics are not inherited. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you have accumulated during your life; not a single drop will not go to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts out of nowhere. Genes use the body to remain unchanged.

Individuals are not eternal, they are transitory. Chromosomes also go into oblivion, like a stack of cards received by each player and played soon after delivery. But by the cards during the shuffle, nothing happens. The cards are genes. Genes are not destroyed in the crossing over, they just change partners and continue to move forward. Of course, they move on. It's their job. They are the replicators and we are the machines needed for them to survive. After we completed its task, we have discarded. But genes come from geological time, they are here forever.

The lack of immediate error that it is often fatal.

Deviated so much from the topic, I can't resist in order not to go just a little further.

Selected examples can never serve as a serious argument against any generalizations that you trust.

From evolutionary theory there is one curious aspect - everyone thinks that he understands her.