The Selfish Gene - Chapter 5 - Richard Dawkins - Review
Channel: Patrick Theist
Date: 2020-10-06

The fifth chapter of The Selfish Gene is an attempt to use rudimentary game theory as an explanation for cooperative behavior among gene carrying 'machines'. Evolutionarily Stable Strategy is a made-up term Dawkins uses to describe animal behavior that supposedly evolved over millennia and has its source in the behavior of individual genes; unless the same behavior can be demonstrated and learned in a single generation; in which case it is called Developmentally Stable Strategy.
Such unproductive, marginally imaginative and utterly useless line of reasoning is common throughout the book. 
The potentially deleterious attitudes that can easily be extrapolated from the underlying callous doctrine as proposed by Dawkins should not go unnoticed by the reader.