Genes as hidden agents that influence motives and feelings

Richard Dawkins, as well as other  science writers believe that genes are hidden inner agents with their own agendas that influence our motives and feelings.

Susan Oyama eloquently argues in her book The Ontogeny (course of development especially of an individual organism).of Information, “is not that genes and environment are necessary for all characteristics, inherited or acquired (the usual enlightened position), but that there is no intelligible distinction between inherited (biological, genetically based) and acquired (environmentally mediated) characteristics.