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Comment by mr_toad

25 days ago

Dawkins original definition was an idea that replicated unchanged, in an analogy to a gene, which is essentially a unit of DNA small enough to replicate unchanged.

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rcxdude  25 days ago

mostly unchanged (or rather, unchanged most of the time). Mutations still happen and are necessary for evolution.

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