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Re:Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were wort... by sgdpk on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:52AM (#32935947)
The Selfish Gene is great. The portions on Evolutionary Stable Strategies are particularly interesting. It shows how Darwinism can lead to a "steady state", where a population contains individuals with competing characteristics (selflessness VS selfishness), and why this not at odds with selection.
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Re:Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were wort... by benzin on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:16AM (#32936513)
The jaw-dropping moment for this point is the section about bees, even if the author himself said it was very hard to understand. It reframed my understanding of a 'queen' bee at least.
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Re:Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were wort... by mongol on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:32AM (#32937026)
Yes it is certainly a classic, I think it belongs to a category of books that really changes how society at large reasons about things. There are not that many books of that kind.
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