LIVE DEBATE Richard Dawkins vs. Denis Noble: Is The Selfish Gene holding back medicine and cancer cures? The world’s most incendiary evolutionary biologist asks if we need to rethink DNA.

June 4, 2022 @ “How the Light Gets In” UK conference

Richard Dawkins is author of the world’s best selling evolution book, “The Selfish Gene” and is one of the most famous intellectuals today. Denis Noble was on Dawkins’ PhD review committee at Oxford and is one of the most respected scientists in the world.

Noble was the first person to model a human organ on the computer, the heart, which led to the development of the pacemaker. His work with heart genetics convinced him that standard evolutionary theory has major flaws. Noble organized the 2016 Royal Society Evolution Conference, which galvanized the field.

“How the Light Gets In” announces:

Dawkins’ Selfish Gene has been hugely influential, both within evolutionary biology and in the wider public sphere. It’s a beautifully simple story: genes and not organisms drive evolutionary change. But critics argue the story is simplistic. The effect of a gene is not always the same and as is dependent on its host and the cell environment. DNA does not come neatly divided into individual genes. And in 2010 the renowned biologist EO Wilson and others revived the case for group selection. Some are now arguing that the Selfish Gene paradigm is holding back medical research.

Is it time to move on and acknowledge that Dawkins’ theory is not the whole story? Might his theory be making a fundamental mistake in reducing humans to machines? Or does the Selfish Gene remain a remarkably powerful and accurate account of who we are?

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