Sentence examples for selfish nature from inspiring English sources

Such exploitation is to be expected of the fundamentally "selfish" nature of natural selection.

He stands out due to his violent and selfish nature and his inability to see himself as a human being.

"I am the cause for the disruption between the North and the South," he continued, and the point was to destroy the "horrible state of affairs" that man's "selfish nature" had brought.

Though the earlier deities had established the basic reality of the universe its ontological core because of their chaotic and selfish nature they resisted their own offspring, who were later to create the now existing definite order of the cosmos.

The selfish nature of the brain has also been observed in the unique preservation of brain mass in individuals suffering from long-term malnutrition or starvation51, in children born with intrauterine growth restriction72,73 and in glucose-challenging situations such as fasting or hypo/hyper-glycaemia74,75,76.

He calls the idea that civilisation and morality are imposed on a violent, immoral, selfish nature Veneer Theory and concludes, "Everything science has learned in the last few decades argues against the pessimistic view that morality is a thin veneer over a nasty human nature".

In a world where we are taught that nature is selfish and selfishness natural, the discovery of natural altruism can even seem shocking.

Replicators are selfish by nature.

Internet is composed of independent autonomous systems (ASes) which are selfish by nature.

Since the users of overlay multicast networks belong to different administrative domains, they are selfish in nature; resulting in degradation of performance.

This seems to lend support to the idea that humans are selfish by nature: Parents will support the school their own child attends, but might not be willing to support schools whose children look different from theirs.