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(born 1957 in Dortmund) is a German internist and brain researcher. He developed the Selfish Brain Theory. He has been a professor at the University of Lübeck...

The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's...

30th anniversary of the publication of The Selfish Gene, Dawkins 2006 "Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device": article by...

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...

reasoning postulate that there are two systems or minds in one brain. A current theory is that there are two cognitive systems underlying thinking and...

Traditional game theory is a critical principle of economic theory, and assumes that people's strategic decisions are shaped by rationality, selfishness and utility...

itself, were originally speculated by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene although similar, or analogous, concepts had been in currency for...

intuitively obvious. In the second section, he lays out his theory that the human brain is organized to respond to several distinct types of moral violations...

Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. University of Chicago Press Distin, K. (2005). The selfish meme: A critical...

postulated conspirators are not merely people with selfish agendas or differing values. Rather, conspiracy theories postulate a black-and-white world in which...

the jackpot." Neurobiological theories have suggested that collecting behaviors can in some cases be explained by brain damage or abnormalities. This...

importance of evolution at the level of the gene or the individual, The Selfish Gene. From the mid-1960s, evolutionary biologists argued that natural selection...

collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit. In biology, many animal and plant species cooperate...

and, in the 20th century, by the likes of Ayn Rand (in The Virtue of Selfishness, for example), that pursuing one's individual self-interest promotes...

models fairness, because it excludes selfish bias. Rawls said that each of us would reject the utilitarian theory of justice that we should maximize welfare...

the brain is "hard-wired" at birth to acquire spoken language, something argued by both psychologist Steven Pinker and by the universal grammar theory of...

self-regarding, selfish, or material interests. They also include other-regarding, altruistic, as well as normative or ideational goals. Rational choice theory does...

moral faculty overpowering innate selfish desires, but a fundamental, ingrained, and enjoyable trait in the brain. One brain region, the subgenual anterior...

The Selfish Gene (1976) Oxford:Oxford University Press. ISBN Churchland, Patricia (1986). Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind–Brain. MIT...

Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain...