Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

Details from various of Morris's paintings can be seen on the cover art of early editions of Richard Dawkins's books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In The Selfish Gene, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes that " Blood-feuds and inter-clan warfare are easily interpretable in terms of Hamilton's genetic theory.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Burman, by contrast, has shown that the misunderstanding that memes are " real " is a result of a popularization based on a confused interpretation of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene.

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of memetics in The Selfish Gene, but rather coined the term meme in a speculative spirit.

" Memeticist " was coined as analogous to " geneticist " originally in The Selfish Gene.

'" Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene has been a factor in drawing in people of disparate intellectual backgrounds.

Lynch claimed to have conceived his theory totally independently of any contact with academics in the cultural evolutionary sphere, and apparently was not even aware of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene until his book was very close to publication.

* The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

* The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976.

In summary, the rhetoric of The Selfish Gene exactly reverses the real situation: through metaphor genes are endowed with properties only sentient beings can posses, such as selfishness, while sentient beings are stripped of these properties and called machines ( robots ).

The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976 in eleven chapters with a preface by the author and a foreword by Robert Trivers.

In March 2006, a special event entitled The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On was held at the London School of Economics.

* Richard Dawkins discusses The Selfish Gene on the BBC World Book Club

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One sociobiological model is The Selfish Gene, proposed by Richard Dawkins: That an individual of a species will mate with individuals from the same species displaying " good genes ".

As Dawkins points out in The Selfish Gene ( Chapter 6 ) and The Extended Phenotype, this must be distinguished from the green-beard effect.

When the album was released on CD in the 1990s, lyrics on the song "( She's So ) Selfish " were significantly altered, with lines like " coming from the quaalude scene " changed to " lame ' o scene ".

3 ) Selfish motives of the human nature bind the representative to his constituents because the delegates hope to seek advancement from his followers rather than the government.

: Selfish, spoiled, misguided, yet whimsical and not completely heartless ; she is the American 14-year-old granddaughter of the chairman of the O ' Hara Foundation.

In psychology, Professor Edwin A. Locke and Ellen Kenner have explored Rand's ideas in The Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love with Passion & Reason.

" Selfish ", when applied to genes, doesn't mean " selfish " at all.

: Not to be confused with the book The Selfish Gene.

Selfish DNA refers to those sequences of DNA which, in their purest form, have two distinct properties: ( 1 ) the DNA sequence spreads by forming additional copies of itself within the genome ; and ( 2 ) it makes no specific contribution to the reproductive success of its host organism.

This idea was sketched briefly by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene and was explicitly exposed in two 1980 articles in Nature magazine.

* Dawkins, Richard ( 1976 ), The Selfish Gene.

Thirty of these songs were recorded by artists including Cliff Richard, David Essex, Gene Pitney and Marc Almond for the 2006 various artists ' album Words / Music, and subsequently re-released in 2008 as a double CD titled Sound of Poetry.

Years later fellow musician Gene Vincent told an interviewer that, rather than " Blue Moon of Kentucky " being a " new sound ", " a lot of people were doing it before that, especially Carl Perkins.

Andrews ' two signature roles came as an obsessed detective in Laura ( 1944 ) opposite Gene Tierney, and as a U. S. Army Air Force officer returning home from the war in the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Buchalter was portrayed by David J. Stewart in the 1960 film Murder Inc., Gene Roth and Joseph Ruskin in The Untouchables as well as by John Vivyan and Shepherd Sanders in The Lawless Years television series.

Image from Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Deadly Years © 1967 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

* Ep 521 ( 2006-04-23 ) 30 Years of Punk Rock, Part 1 ( Pre-Punk )-featuring: Ramones & Franz Liszt & The Kingsmen & Gene Vincent & Eddie Cochran & The Troggs & The Velvet Underground & The Stooges & New York Dolls & David Bowie & Television & Patti Smith

It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists like Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors and Kraftwerk in its seven-year run.

* Gene Harris: The Best of the Concord Years ( 2000, Concord )

On April 10, 2010, Kenny, Mike, Mickey, Terry, Mary, and Gene reunited as part of the " Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years " TV special.

Other covers were recorded by Mountain, Ten Years After, Raul Seixas, Leon Russell, Status Quo, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Sonics, Wes Paul, Gene Vincent, Quartz, Johnny Winter, Uriah Heep, Kickhunter, Johnny Rivers, M. Ward, Iron Maiden, and Margaret Lewis.

Years later, while in Kiss, both Bob Ezrin and Gene Simmons are credited for changing the song's title to " Beth ," presumably to be more recognizable as a female name.

He became the featured vocalist for Gene Krupa's band, replacing Howard Dulaney, in September, recording over a dozen songs, the last of which was " All Those Wonderful Years ", a song from the movie Keep ' em Flying, which reached No. 21 on the US charts.