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selfish gene

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selfish
adjective
uk /ˈsel.fɪʃ/ us /ˈsel.fɪʃ/
Someone who is selfish only thinks of their ...
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gene
noun[C]
uk /dʒiːn/ us /dʒiːn/
a part of the DNA in a cell that controls the physical development, behaviour, etc. of an individual plant or animal and is passed on from ...
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Examples of selfish gene


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They consider this to be a major paradox, because according to selfishgene theories, liars should possess genetic advantages over truth-tellers.
It just stands for survival value (as in "selfishgene").
Recurrent invasion and extinction of a selfishgene.
Other researchers, generally those who support the selfishgene theory, question the authenticity of this altruistic behaviour.
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According to selfishgene theory, individuals may pursue a seemingly irrational strategy to cooperate if it benefits the survival of their genes.
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The toxin-antitoxin system contained within "skin" forces the inheritance of this element, which is acting as a selfishgene.
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A selfishgene could be favored by selection by producing altruism among organisms containing it.
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However, his selfishgene theory lived on.
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However, wingless forms are favored due to competition for ovarian development and wings and reproductive success is the main goal due to the selfishgene theory.
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Dawkins (1976) emphasizes the notion of genetic replication - his selfish genes.
We are left with a puzzling intellectual challenge: to elucidate how the necessary levels of trust could ever have been compatible with our selfish genes.
They applied a selfishgene view of evolution to animals' threat displays to see if it would be in their genes' interests to give dishonest signals.
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These are sometimes interpreted as "selfish genes" or as redundancy in the genome, where later mutations may produce greater complexity during the course of evolution.
As a result, much of the conceptual framework that justifies selfishgene models is regarded by developmental systems theory as not merely weak but actually false.
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Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution.
Site-specific selfish genes as tools for the control and genetic engineering of natural populations.
This makes possible a sociobiology that strays too far from the mark when it generalizes and absolutizes concepts such as the genetic program and selfish genes.
Selfish genes, pleiotropy and the origin of recombination.
Maternal-effect, selfish genes in flour beetles.
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