/lit/ - Literature

I read The Selfish Gene recently and it was pretty decent. A good look at how genetics and evolution works put in a way a layman can understand (although I must be less than a layman because I did not fully understand it).
Originally I thought it would be a look at how living creatures only ever act in their own self interest and are not capable of acting altruistically but it's not really about that. It does put forward that evolution is pushed through individual selection rather then group selection and the selfishness of creatures does occur within those groups. However, for families it is possible as genetically your children are half you.

Regardless, I found the most interest stuff to be about actual animals like the Cuckoo bird and bees. I would recommend it, I think the chapter on memes was important also but again, I feel like I missed something and would have to go back and try again to really understand it.

best thing I got from the book :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1WccH2_YM