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Imagine a virus, for instance,
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that captured an animal's brain
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and then modified the animal's brain
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such that the animal would run out and bite other animals
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so as to pass on the virus.
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And then, of course, you would call that virus "Rabies."
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Along these lines,
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the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins
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took the general step of suggesting that
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animals are the vehicles through which
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genes exploit to reproduce.
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From this perspective,