@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Dawkins,Richard}, subject = {Life}, note = {I 42 Life/genesis/structure/Dawkins: Thesis: Even prior to the development of life there was a certain rudimentary evolution of molecules, whereby there was no need at all for a plan or a direction. I 52 Life/genesis/Cairns-Smith: Thesis: Our progenitors were perhaps minerals. I 80 Death/Dawkins: It's actually a good question, why we die. Death/Tradition: Death is an act of altruism towards the rest of the species. MedawarVs: circular conclusion, presupposes what he wants to prove: namely, that old animals are too weak to reproduce. No ancestor died in infancy. I 419 Life/Dawkins: the only unit that must exist for life to be created somewhere in the universe is the immortal replicator. ((s) Replicator is gene, not the individual, not the body).}, note = { Da I R. Dawkins The Selfish Gene, Oxford 1976 German Edition: Das egoistische Gen, Hamburg 1996 Da II M. St. Dawkins Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness, Oxford/New York/Heidelberg 1993 German Edition: Die Entdeckung des tierischen Bewusstseins Hamburg 1993 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=368659} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=368659} }