It happened about an hour from my house

Nothing selfish about this

It was 1976 when now-famed evolutionary “ethologist” Richard Dawkins, still perhaps Western Civilization’s leading pop-culture atheist (though Neil DeGrasse Tyson might bicker over the title), wrote his famous book The Selfish Gene.

Admittedly, I never read the book. Well, not all of it. I read a few portions for a project I was doing at one point, but c…