Richard Dawkins Quotes:
Ocupation: Ethologist
Life: b. March 26, 1941
Birthday: March 26
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.
source: Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.56, Oxford University Press
topic: Hands, Forever, Survival, Shuffling, Chromosomes, Crossing Over, Geological Time
