I've personally never really read the book of the same title but I do know they are cautious to remind us that our gene's act "selfishly" not out of a conscious endevor but by insticnt (self-preservation and all that jazz...). Something about it being part of Darwinian evolutionary yah-dah yah-dah yah-dah and how its the fundamental "point" of all genes to self-preserve and …