chapter 8

In the eighth chapter, Dawkins shows how mothers create their offspring. In the book, he says that the mothers do a selfish act in creating offspring because they create them exactly as themselves and for their own benefit. What these mothers don't know is that no offspring can ever be identical to its mother. all genes and organisms are different. Brothers and sisters are closely related but never the same. They have the same mother and often times the same fathers, but no matter what no two living things can ever be the same. Genes are very obedient when it comes to there benefit. They do make mistakes. This makes them even more different then they would have been originally. For each child, the couple is different. it has many similarities and comes from the same genes and parents; but its effect can never be duplicated by another sibling from the same makeup.

A mother gives half genes to each of her offspring, because of selfishness which has already developed at the age of birth. The mother will only invest the same amount into each, but the act is reinforced at the young age, which will characterize most of its behavior.

Each of way is prone to help its particular specie to get ahead in the race of natural selection. Some birds lay their eggs in different species nests because when the egg hatches the normal action the young bird would take would be to kill the other unhatched eggs with its sharp beak and kill the other birds opportunity to be competition for food from the mother. When the mother comes back from her long journey insearch for food for her young ones, the child would be happy and show it in some obvious way for the act he has done and for the ease it will now be to have the food brought home by the mother. This would please the mother and give her inspiration to go get more food, giving the child the new horrible habit of greed and selfishness.