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noun
The gene regarded as the primary driver and beneficiary of the evolutionary process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: evolutionary theory
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History
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene.
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