Meaning of Dawkinsian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relating to the "selfish gene" view on evolution as proposed by Richard Dawkins.
2. Stridently atheist, like Richard Dawkins.

Examples

“In an essay entitled 'Selfish Genes and Social Darwinism' (1983, p.366) she argues that 'sociobiological thinking, especially in its Dawkinsian form, actually reinforces Social Darwinism, both by its language and by some of its substance'.”

“In two papers, I argued that differential selection ought to favor more nearly decomposable or more quasi-independent phenotypes, so that the evolution of or selection for quasi-independence paradoxically meant that if a Williamsian or Dawkinsian genic selectionist picture is true, it is true because selection at higher levels produced it!”

“It is not entirely clear how much the Dawkinsian perspective has to do with the issues of present concern.”

“The suggestion that Rolston diverges from Darwinism could also be directed at Ward when he seeks to supplement Dawkinsian, gene-machine-like, accounts of evolution by reference to a guiding purpose.”

“[…] two million people convinced and converted to Dawkinsian atheistic humanism.”

“From that moment, I became an atheist — but we still remained best friends (probably because neither of us tried to convert the other). Let me state right now that I was never Dawkinsian in either temperament or zeal.”

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