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리차드 도킨스가 이기적 유전자에서 고안한 용어.

We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I never seem to get fully used to it. One of my hopes is that I may have some success in astonishing others. —Richard Dawkins, 이기적 유전자 1판 서문 중