Cephalopodophil.

“Just as a linguist penetrates the past to Proto-Indo-European, triangulating from modern languages and from already reconstructed dead languages, we can do the same with modern organisms, comparing either their external characteristics or their protein or DNA sequences.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“Just by chance, you could happen to give all your mother’s versions to your child, and none of your father’s. In this case, your father would have given no DNA to his grandchild. Of course such a scenario is highly unlikely, but as we go down to more distant descendants, total non-contribution of DNA becomes more possible.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“Readers have high expectations. They don’t want to be told how a character feels; they want to experience the emotion for themselves.”
― Angela Ackerman, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

“Scientists who use such language, whether at the level of the individual or the gene, know very well that it is only a figure of speech. Genes are just DNA molecules. You’d have to be barking mad to think that ‘selfish’ genes really have deliberate intentions to survive!”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution