Her argument that the selfish-gene model is being superseded by other forms of evolutionary explanation relies on an overinterpretation of those alternatives.
Dr Brunton looked at the number of chicks fledged per nest in the colony she was observing and discovered that, contrary to the selfish-herd theory's predictions, pairs breeding near the edge of the colony were more successful than those at its centre.
This is interesting in as much as it shows how such thinking has changed over the years, but her real purpose seems to be to create doubt in the reader's mind about whether selection at the level of the gene is the only mechanism of evolution, which is what Mr Dawkins and his fellow selfish-geners believe.
In fact the most debilitating symptom of depression is when life no longer produces anything that can free its victim from the dead weight of selfish self-consciousness.
Even though reality TV seems to be the root cause for all of our declining values, this genre is, once again, blamed for turning fathers into selfish ego-monsters.
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What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.
Our constant drive for selfish over-consumption at any cost, to benefit the few at the expense of the many and at the expense of Nature itself, is the real illness in our society that is causing all of this imbalance.
Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.
The wiretaps, which breached the normally soundproof walls of hedge funds, told a breathtaking tale of selfish, short-term thinking.
Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.
Do I think it is fair that students are penalized for wanting to transfer for selfish, utility-maximizing reasons when coaches and administrators are seldom punished for similar employment moves?
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All the while, for strictly selfish reasons, well-run companies will strive for friendly long-term relations with employees, suppliers and customers.
Some have called Jones-Drew selfish for his holdout, though such an accusation misses the fact that football is a brutal business.
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He was cold, selfish and rather one-dimensional.
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She then measures various metrics such as persistence at difficult tasks, self-reliance, and selfish inclinations.
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My reasons are not so much civic as dramatic -- that is, selfish.
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Rovers boss Sam Allardyce labelled 32-year-old McCarthy "selfish" for missing training in an apparent effort to force through the move.
You and I might disagree, for example, about the proper ends of society, or we might as non-angels have differing selfish interests.
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These are solvable problems, but it does require us just getting out of the short-term and, frankly, selfish approach that sometimes politics breeds.
Only a solid, foundation-rocking crisis forces us to stop being small and selfish.
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The Great Before, goes the myth, was a time of peace, plenty and triviality, when we coasted in blissful self-absorption, drunk on day trading, egged on by a selfish, amoral popular culture.
But it is not particularly true of his big opponents -- including the left-wing Democratic Party, which has its own scandals, its own selfish interests and, during the election campaign, its own evidence of the abuse of political power in the case of Italy's third-largest (and oldest) bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whose business was allegedly run and distorted in the interests of local Democratic Party politicians in that area.
The manager later e-mailed the owner asking him to ban Tamerlan Tsarnaev, saying he's arrogant, selfish and never helps anyone else.
Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.
The aristocracy might be selfish and sometimes cruel, but it's also witty, cultivated, mannerly and effortlessly elegant and self-assured.
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People aspiring to be high-powered lawyers should read some of John Grisham's books wherein the species is portrayed as selfish, soulless and overworked, with personal lives that are a mess and activities that are utterly unredeeming.
When other games got battered down by scandals and undermined by selfish pretenders, at least there was Roger and Rafa, 26 Grand Slams between them, a pair of all-timers, holding the line.
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