So is his selfish gene theory the most dominant and widely accepted one amongst evolutionary biologists or are there other theories as well? He just carried on from Hamilton-Price. Hamilton’s equations were based on logic and viewing humans to be the same as machines.
Anyway, I was just giving an example that there are many people who have not read his books but because he is (was) considered to be an expert on this subject, people believe in what he says without understanding it. Kind of like religion!