life/dinner principle

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life/dinner principle (plural not attested)

  1. Alternative form of life-dinner principle
    • 2006, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition, page 250:
      My colleague John Krebs and I have dubbed this the ‘life/dinner principle’. Because of the life/dinner principle, animals might at times behave in ways that are not in their own best interests, manipulated by some other animal.
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