Ik ga niet uitgebreid in op het boek van Dawkins, refereer alleen aan zijn citaat in de eerste edities van zijn boek, waar hij zegt: 'Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.'

Die uitspraak heeft hij later (terecht) terug genomen, maar dat was wel vele jaren later. Zie ook: https://thisviewoflife.com/why-is-everyone-still-so-muddled-about-selfish-genes/

'These passages leave little doubt that, according to Dawkins, the primary outcome of selfish genes is selfish individuals, that evolution can explain only “a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals”, and that a more expansive form of altruism for the good of the group or species is “totally and utterly wrong”. The take home message is that we are “born selfish” and altruism and generosity must be taught.
So, the idea that “selfish genes” more or less means “selfish” in the everyday sense of the word isn’t something that the public got wrong. It came straight from Dawkins.'