Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne, 1998, T. 17

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Biologiczne źródła socjobiologii R. Dawkinsa
Krawczyńska, Tatiana (Instytut Teologiczny w Tarnowie, 1998)
The splendid attainment of modern biology is the Synthetic Evolution Theory – unification of Darvin’s theory, genetics and some new theory, f.e. kin selection or Researching work into animals’ behaviour, especially into social animals, solved many problems. Unfortunately E.O. Wilson made the most of these knowledge to dissolving many questions of humane behaviour and he called it sociobiology. In this article we present short history of genetic determination humans’ behaviour. We become acquainted with a sociobiologist – Richard Dawkins and one of his favourite analogies: that living organisms are survival machines for genes. Genes that build good survival machines propagate and multiply in the gene pool and out-complete other genes. But the success or failure of replicators is based on their ability to build successful vehicles. There is a complementarity in the relationship: vehicles propagate their replicators, not themselves, replicators make vehicles. So Dawkins sums up, that human behaviour is subordinate to survival and replication of DNA’s molecules. We are not important in the evolution point of view. The most important is survival and replication of one gene. That’s why Dawkins called it selfish gene.