 One way to interpret the Central Theorem is that it implies that the individual organism is always the beneficiary of any selection process. The genic selectionists seem to mean by “beneficiary” both the manifestor of adaptation and that which survives to reap the rewards of the evolutionary process. Dawkins argues, rightly and persuasively, I think, that it does not make sense always to consider the individual organism to be the beneficiary of a selection process.