He is the author of many books including the international best-sellers "The Selfish Gene", "The Blind Watchmaker", and "Climbing Mount Improbable." QUESTION: Professor Dawkins, could you explain ...

His vision is very distinctly set against the 'selfish gene' picture associated most notably with Richard Dawkins and evident in an extreme form in 'evolutionary psychology'. For Professor Dover ...

The word "meme" first arose in Richard Dawkins' 1976 The Selfish Gene to describe a part of culture or example of behavior passed on socially through imitation or additional ways other than genetics.

The "selfish" B chromosomes ... especially before recent developments in the area of long-read sequencing. As such, gene-level insight into the specific mechanisms that control chromosome drive ...

Even in human evolution, selfish genes, as Richard Dawkins described in The Selfish Gene, drive behaviors that ensure the continuation of one's genetic lineage. However, paradoxically, cooperation ...

It has been nearly three decades since Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene popularized the notion that genes could act in their own self-interest, sometimes at huge cost to the organism encoding them.

Geneticists from the Universities of Manchester and Bath are celebrating the discovery of the elusive ‘greenbeard gene’ that helps explain why ... “greenbeard gene” in his 1976 best seller The Selfish ...