In search of the lost genes by Brian Fuld Adopted children desperately seek their birth mothers.
Birth Mothers seek their lost children.
In 1982 a small book, The Selfish Gene , was quietly published and largely forgotten. In it, author Richard Dawkins made an amazing observation. Some scholars now believe his theories about our genes may rival that of Darwin's theory of evolution. In Darwin's theory, all life seeks to continue despite the changes in environment. It does this by perpetuating small changes in each copy of its offspring.