The End.

I have reached the end, the end of The Selfish Gene. I have to say this is not an ordinary book, it’s so different from everything else I have read. The way Dawkins talks about boring science terms makes you actually want to read, to see what he has to says. It is just so original. I remember how in the first blog I wrote about this book I criticized it just because it was about science. It is not the best book I have read because it is up to some point boring and confusing.

What else can I say, The Selfish Gene and in the end it was selfish. Apart from learning really complicated terms, this book made me realize how people are only selfish. I used to think there were some individuals that did care for others and were generous, apparently I was wrong. Those certain people are like that because in the end they will be benefitted by what they do for others. In other words, it’s altruism but as another way to be selfish. Even if we try to by altruistic, we can’t our selfishness end up winning, it it’s stronger because that the nature of the humans we go first than anybody else. We always have self interest “single genes cheat against their other genes with which they share a body” (236). Since our genes our like that, selfish for a same body, we are like that. “The success that a replicator has in the world will depend on what kind of a world it is- the pre-existing conditions” (265). In the end we are the ones who created this selfish world and Dawkins was trying to show us this and that we should “try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. ”(3). After all it depends on us.