Evolution acts at an individual level

<p>The orthodox view of evolution is that it must act at an individual level. Looking at it from a XX-century scientist, that would mean that it acts at a gene-level[<a class="litnote tooltip" href="/literature/@dawkins2016">@dawkins2016<span class="tooltiptext">The selfish gene: 40th anniversary edition</span></a>, Chapter 1]. </p> <blockquote> <p>I shall argue that the fundamental unit of selection, and therefore of self-interest, is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual. It is the gene, the unit of heredity.</p> </blockquote>