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In an interview with "The Independent" in September 2007, she argued that Dawkins' views on evolution are ideologically driven: "The ideology Dawkins is selling is the worship of competition. It is projecting a Thatcherite take on economics on to evolution. It's not an impartial scientific view; it's a political drama." In April 2009 Midgley reiterated her critical interpretation of "The Selfish Gene" as part of a series of articles on Hobbes in "The Guardian". In her 2010 book "The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene", she argues that "simple one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the "selfish gene" tendency in recent neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic."