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The Selfish Gene, a theoretical approach in evolutionary biology that takes the gene rather than the individual or species as the fundamental unit of natural selection and argues that adaptation occurs at the genetic level. This concept, first popularized by Richard Dawkins in 1976, posits that organisms are programmed “survival machines” or vehicles designed to preserve and propagate their genes, with genes themselves being the ultimate beneficiaries and enduring units of evolutionary processes