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Nature 440, 609 (30 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440609a; Published online 29 March 2006
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A selfish element
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BOOK REVIEWED-Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements
by Austin Burt & & Robert Trivers
Belknap Press: 2006. 610 pp. $35/£21.95
In the early 1970s, Robert Trivers published six articles on the evolution of social behaviour. They were ignored by most social scientists, who were reluctant to consider natural selection as a cause of human behavioural traits, and they were bitterly attacked by marxists for reasons of doctrine.
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