Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.