Philosophers, biologists: Do you think the single gene is the unit of selection ("Dawkins")?
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The individual is the unit of selection. I'll tell you if a gene is a unit of anything when you tell me what you mean by "gene".
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Alas, the individual is not less perplexing to define. (And as for genes: I don't regard them as fundamental anyway)
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Darlington had a typology of units: of heredity, of mutation, of variation, beyond unit of selection (as I described in chp.1 of my PhD).
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