It is believed he wrote his short story ; the Selfish Giant, whilst in the gardens.

Wilde also mentions how the call of the linnet awakens The Selfish Giant to the one tree where it is springtime in his garden.

It contains five stories, " The Happy Prince ", " The Nightingale and the Rose ", " The Selfish Giant ", " The Devoted Friend ", and " The Remarkable Rocket ".

* The Selfish Giant ( 1983 ; Graeme Koehne )

He is the narrator of the 2011 audiobook of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

# Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant ( 1992 )

Beatrice illustrated Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale, The Selfish Giant ( Noteworthy Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9830038-0-9 ).

* Official site of The Selfish Giant book / cd

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.

Richard Dawkins ' book, The Selfish Gene, has a chapter, " Nice guys finish first ", which attempts to explain the role of altruism and cooperation in evolution and how social animals not only cannot survive without such traits, but how evolution will create them.

* The song " Selfish " by Slum Village featuring Kanye West includes a line in which West says " I spotted her like Spud MacKenzie.

Riley has written several best-selling cartoon books, The Book of Bunny Suicides ( 2003 ), Return of the Bunny Suicides, The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Dawn of the Bunny Suicides, Great Lies To Tell Small Kids, Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids, and Selfish Pigs, which have produced calendar, greetings card, Bunnycides iPhone app and poster spin-offs.

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.

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

The term has declined in popularity, and the older term meme ( coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 )) is now used in its stead almost universally ( even by Wilson in his later writings ).

He has already performed a few songs live at his debut solo performance, at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, including " As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid " and " Love, Selfish Love ", that may have originally been off his upcoming solo album, but have since been included as a part of his solo debut EP, Truant Wave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

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.

* The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On and mp3 from Edge Foundation, Inc.

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

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.

Since then the magazine has been briefly in the ownership of Giant Clipper and Attitude Publications Ltd before Trojan Publishing Ltd ( which also owns Fresh, Woman's Fitness and What Diesel?

Northernmost in Siam, beautiful Doi Tung, repository of culture, most delicious rice, sweet and fragrant litchi, beautiful women, the finest flavoured tea, pineapple from Nang-Lae (, source of the Giant Catfish ).

Methone ( Greek Μεθώνη ) was one of the Alkyonides, the seven beautiful daughters of the Giant Alkyoneus.

In The Giant Horse of Oz, Ruth Plumly Thompson names the Good Witch of the North " Tattypoo "; as the story unfolds, Tattypoo turns out to be the bewitched form of a beautiful Munchkin queen named Orin.