life/dinner principle en · NOUN
Meanings
-
(alt-of, alternative, no-plural) Alternative form of life-dinner principle.
alt of life-dinner principle
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.
2006, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition, page 250: