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*2 : arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others <a selfish [[act]]>

*2 : arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others <a selfish [[act]]>

*3 : being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known [[function]] <selfish [[DNA]]>; also : being genetic [[material]] solely concerned with its own [[Reproduction|replication]] <selfish genes>

*3 : being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known [[function]] <selfish [[DNA]]>; also : being genetic [[material]] solely concerned with its own [[Reproduction|replication]] <selfish genes>

==Description==

==Description==

'''Selfishness''' denotes the precedence given in [[thought]] or [[deed]] to the [[self]], i.e., self interest or self concern. It is the [[act]] of placing one's own needs or [[desires]] above the needs or desires of others. Psychologist and primatologist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal Frans de Waal] takes issue with those who equate "selfishness" with "self-serving." He [[argues]] that "Selfishness implies the [[intention]]  to serve oneself, hence [[knowledge]] of what one stands to gain from a particular [[behavior]]".

'''Selfishness''' denotes the precedence given in [[thought]] or [[deed]] to the [[self]], i.e., self interest or self concern. It is the [[act]] of placing one's own needs or [[desires]] above the needs or desires of others. Psychologist and primatologist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal Frans de Waal] takes issue with those who equate "selfishness" with "self-serving." He [[argues]] that "Selfishness implies the [[intention]]  to serve oneself, hence [[knowledge]] of what one stands to gain from a particular [[behavior]]".