Recomiendo arduamente la lectura de libros de ciencia. No pseudociencia, or global conspiracies, science only informative, but established, appropriate to the level that everyone has. Of the theme that seems to you: physics, mathematics, meteorology, biology. It is absorbing reading, which requires concentration, but in return offers the serenity of the natural sciences, the distance on relativizing that gives you daily-world problems, and in some cases, a point of view very productive quasi-philosophical.
Determined to fill some gaps in genetics, bought The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, not knowing who was buying a fundamental and highly controversial book about evolutionary biology, a classic novel whose point of view on the mechanisms of natural selection meant a paradigm shift in the way of understanding Darwinian evolution. I was with my shortcomings in genetics, but I had a great time.
Of the many fundamental ideas of this book, the first is that, for Dawkins, the basic unit of evolution is not the species (one individual does something that is good for the species) or group (an individual does something that is good for the species), but the individual (an individual does something that is good for him). Obviously, everything is done in a non-conscious. If the individual has features that are favorable, he will succeed in reproducing and prosper. But an individual's traits or behaviors based on what is encoded in their genes, which are the true basic unit on which natural selection acts. At first, everything was loose genes (DNA molecules, to be exact), but gradually came to cooperate and grouped such that, selfishly, such cooperation was good for them. So they built the sophisticated machines we superivencia you and me. Dawkins goes on to say that the concept of individual may be a convention, and that you and I are a community of organisms more or less developed, which act so together that it is impossible to differentiate.
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