The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins’s first book, was published in October 1976 and 50 years on, it is still selling, in more than 30 languages. For a science book – not least one with “gene” in its ...

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In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

Do you often feel that some people are very selfish and can do anything for their ulterior motives, and most people end up blaming the circumstances, but you will be amazed to know that it is the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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Selfish people rarely say "I’m sorry," but they'll say these phrases on repeat and expect you to put up with it. Everyone's had the misfortune of dealing with a selfish person at some point in their ...

An introner jumped between this species, a glass sponge, and an unrelated species of marine protist called a dinoflagellate. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

A New Yorker named Natalie has responded to critics who called her “selfish” for not bearing children, saying that she prefers to be “the fun auntie.” “I hear the question, ‘Who’s going to take care ...

Identifying and addressing selfish behavior in children is crucial for their development into empathetic individuals. Raising an empathetic and selfless child requires patience, consistency, and a ...

People are often in unfulfilling relationships. The dynamic of one partner always giving and the other always taking is common. When requests are made for the takers to give up some part of themselves ...