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>>8711295
>A lot of the focus on genes comes from faulty reasoning around the central dogma, and that's at least partially embodied by your first sentence there.
Not him, but please do elaborate. Dogma is dogma and should always be questioned but I don't understand where you're coming from.

Dawkins said himself in retrospect he would have renamed 'Selfish gene' to something I forget now, because it anthropomorphises genes which was not his intention.

If you read the book you'd be familiar with the idea that the 'seflishness' didn't really mean genes on an individual, isolationist level.

>>8711306
There is definitely selection at the genetic/molecular level. For example, genes sometimes undergo duplication events where the copy number of the gene is multiplied. The new homologs for the original gene can, over generations of evolution, form different functions from the original as divergence occurs. New functions can be produced or streamlining of the original gene's product can occur which gives the organism greater control over the cell's resources than before the duplication event.