In the Anglo-Saxon world the debate has been dominated by a… - Denis Noble

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In the Anglo-Saxon world the debate has been dominated by arguments between the gene-centered views of people like Richard Dawkins... and the multi-level selection views of people like Stephen Jay Gould... The gene-centered view... is a metaphorical polemic: the invention of a colourful metaphor to interpret scientific discovery. It is not a straightforward empirical scientific hypothesis.

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CBE FRS FMedSci MAE (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart in 1960.

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