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Cover of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins · 1976
Mentioned 12 times across 10 podcasts · 2020–2026
Mention timeline12 mentions
20202026
Where it's mentioned
2026
What’s Driving Elon Musk?
The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 2026
“the same guy who coined the term meme in his book The Selfish Gene. From 1976”
Lamarck was wrong about evolution. Was he right about life?
Ideas · Sep 2026
“take someone like Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, who in the preface to his landmark book, The Selfish Gene, wrote, we are survival machines”
Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Aug 2026
“I mean Richard Dawkins wrote about it in the selfish gene and that's a very bad book”
#1291 Christopher Kavanagh & Matthew Browne: Decoding the Gurus
The Dissenter · Aug 2026
“and the you know, the selfish gene and so on, Matt and I Big fans of that that book and and actually his evolutionary writing in in general”
Best Of: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life
The Next Big Idea · May 2026
“Richard Dawkins wrote this book, The Selfish Gene, which argues that altruism is an illusion”
How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun
Intelligence Squared · Apr 2026
“And that's the idea of docking the selfish gene. Now the genes be can become to be selfish”
2025
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
The Knowledge Project · Dec 2025
“a bit like reading Uh the selfish gene”
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2025
“So one thing is just the fish gene. This I should understand, uh it actually changed. Uh it actually helped me with the question like whether I want to have kids or not”
First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2025
“the selfish gene. is like one of my favorite books”
2023
The "Happy Life" Scientist: How To FINALLY Beat Stress, Worry & Uncertainty! Dacher Keltner
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Feb 2023
“You know, in Nineteen seventy eight, I think, Richard Dawkins published Selfish Gene”
2021
#221 Charlie Munger
Founders · Dec 2021
“He always tells people to read uh Richard Dawkins qu”
2020
Charlie Songhurst – Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.181]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2020
“There's actually a chapter in Dawkins' sort of selfish gene. on hawks and doves and evolutionally stable populations of different behavioral strategies”