But from the point of view of the selfish genes themselves, there is no paradox.
Give them a reason to put up with the selfish artist in you.
As the researchers expected, they were unwilling to play again with the selfish.
Why not just walk away, rather than the selfish act of leaving a lot of people wondering where she is?
She may have inspired the greedy and the selfish, but that was because she told them what they wanted to hear.
But if you have to make a choice, take the selfish route.
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Her argument that the selfish-gene model is being superseded by other forms of evolutionary explanation relies on an overinterpretation of those alternatives.
But if many workers across many different industries were to demand protection at once, the selfish appeal of such a shield would fade.
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"The American people are held hostage to the selfish political interests of partisans on both sides, " says Hofmeister, the former Shell chief executive.
He has written several popular science books, including The Selfish Gene and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.
The selfish reason: Fishing, for me anyway, is about getting away.
Thus, the selfish pursuit of profit serves a social purpose.
The key insight of the Zurich team is that both nice "Homo socialis" and nasty "Homo economicus" (the selfish boogeyman who supposedly reigns in classical economics) can be promoted by evolution under particular circumstances.
Paradoxically, the only way the young man can gain the wisdom he seeks is by ridding himself of the selfish motivations that inspired him to arrogantly approach the Rabbi in the first place, loudly proclaiming his qualifications.
The selfish greed of Wall Street bankers.
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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.
Elizabeth Corcoran is showing all the signs of the selfish, me generation, that developed the career woman, instead of developing the woman in her by growing others she has the responsibility to personally interact with and rating her happiness by her harder earned achievements there.
We saw the same selfish arguments rolled out when the New York Court of Appeals considered whether to extend liability to the auditors when executives commit fraud on their watch.
But what I am pointing to is the way in which in a market, price driven, system the entirely selfish pursuit of gelt and pelf, the desire purely for filthy lucre, brings about such a desirable result.
It is not, therefore, in the least selfish.
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So the PD (by its Italian initials) is also viewed as selfish by the public, neutralizing Berlusconi's disadvantage on that measure.
Elected governments bow to the demands of selfish factions and interest groups.
But the real truth is that he was far from selfish, and the results of his actions are all the evidence the authors need to make this point.
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That is the pack's name for a selfish rider sitting at the back who doesn't do his or her share of the work.
Those of us born between 1946 and 1964 have been selfish, the argument goes.
However, transforming the Tory image from selfish and mean to cuddly and green is not enough.
Why is pulling your own load and expanding the proverbial pie considered selfish, yet burdening others thought justified?
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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