The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astoni…

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.

Each generation is a filter, a sieve; good genes tend to fall through the sieve into the next generation; bad genes tend to end up in bodies that die young or …

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biolog…