Dawkins falls for a “fallacy of composition.” He inappropriately extends properties of parts to wholes. An absurd example is: each atom in a teacup is invisible, therefore the teacup is invisible. Dawkins projects his preferred “selfish” zero-sum property of genes onto everything built by genes, and falsely concludes everything that has “evolved…should be selfish.” - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/06/12/selfish-genes-also-must-cooperate/