Self And The Phenomenon Of Life: A Biologist Examines Life From Molecules To Humanity

8 Self and the Phenomenon of Life

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each surviving for its own sake, whereas the current view is that genes in an

organism cooperate in a highly sophisticated manner in addition to compe-

tition. See: Yanai I, Lercher M. (2016) The Society of Genes. Harvard Univ.

Press, Cambridge, MA.

4. Dawkins R. (1982) The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selec-
   tion. Oxford: Freeman, p. 114.


5. Jablonka E, Lamb MJ. (2005) Evolution in Four Dimensions. MIT Press,
   Cambridge, MA.


6. My notion of expanded self does have some similarity to Holldobler and
   Wilson’s “superorganism.” Nevertheless, their term is mainly applied to the
   social insects. See: Holldobler B, Wilson EO. (2009) The Superorganism.
   Norton, New York.


7. Schrödinger E. (1944) What is Life? The Physical Aspects of the Living Cell.
   Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK.