Sentences with phrase «complex social groups»

We've shown in our research of feral and stray outdoor cats that they often form complex social groups.

Many insects live in complex social groups, for instance, and they've had about 400 million years to cultivate their smarts.

That is, primates that move around in bigger and more complex social groups require bigger brains in order to efficiently manage all of those social relations.

Yet she feels it's worth it in the long run because the apes will have opportunities such as access to the outdoors and the chance to live in more complex social groups, as they would in the wild.

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The London identity seems widely shared across generations, social classes and ethnic groups

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Instead of dividing the complex activity of a congregation into categories of sacred behavior and secular baggage, this approach sees God's meaning as fully available only to members who perceive the entirety of social links that make their group whole.

Understanding complex social problems (including resources and resistance to change) is best achieved by utilizing the group's total brain - power and experience in subcommittees with specific tasks.

As they face ever more complex technological and social challenges, young people need strong inner values to master both thinking for themselves and working in a group.

In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.

Yes indeed @TomO — and that is why fascist and pseudo-fascist movements tend to have a massive inferiority complex (unlike aristocratic social groups)-- they need to «put others down'to boost their own social self - esteem.

The social intelligence hypothesis posits that having to navigate a complex communal life, which involves challenges such as keeping track of who is a friend and who is an enemy, has pushed group - living animals to evolve the mental machinery required to solve and remember mental tasks such as the box puzzle.

Matriarchs are at the hub of a complex, multilayered social network, and we are now getting insights into the nature of the ties that bind these close - knit groups and the key role that wise old leaders play in enhancing the survival of their members.

In canids, they found that species that sport complex chest patterns — like the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), with a striking white bow tie across its chest, contrasting a tawny coat — tend to be more social, hunting and spending more time in large groups.

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

But the chimps» awareness of the mistreatment of others as well as themselves also lays the groundwork for complex social interactions more like those of human groups, they note.

Many animal species, including humans, live and breed in groups with complex social organizations.

Ants» complex and large social groups are thought to be one of the keys to their global abundance.

A group of Columbia researchers, however, has just added to that knowledge base, publishing a new study that sheds light on how the complex social system evolved in the sea.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

The study adds to a growing body of Yale research into the complex dynamics of human social networks and how those networks influence everything from economic inequality to group violence.

It will tend to be darker and more complex if you're in a closed habitat in a large social group, and it will tend to be lighter and more complex if you're in an open habitat with a large social group.

The researchers also found that those fish raised in a more complex social environment have a different brain structure to those who experienced fewer group members in early life.

It does not follow that we need to imagine that morality took its start from a desperate attempt to form a social union from selfish individualists: «far from being originally solitary, the earliest human beings were heirs to a long, complex tradition of group life».

In future, such data may be key to figuring out whether groups of dogs form complex social hierarchies like wild wolves — a hotly debated question in animal psychology.

As interactions within groups became more complex in ancient Homo species, neural capacities for experiencing social emotions and communicating verbally blossomed, Hurst suspects.

-- Moyzis and Wang theorize that natural selection probably favored different abilities and dispositions as modern groups adapted to the increasingly complex social order ushered in by the first human settlements.

Living in big groups makes it easier for primates to fend off predators, but it also means managing increasingly complex social relationships.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

They live in tightly knit social groups, have complex relationships, communicate with each other using language - like vocalizations, and even have regional dialects.

This species roams in large groups with complex social structures, and it is always difficult not to see some human - like qualities among these populations.

More complex emotions like regret, shame and guilt appear to be designed to keep us from straying outside, or harming our social group.

Here at Morrison & Foerster, across all of our practice groups, we are seeing complex, cutting - edge legal issues arising out of social media.

Animals now have the ability to form pack social hierarchies, coordinate complex group tactics and take advantage of the surroundings to set up deadly ambushes.

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

To be successful, teachers need to «understand the complex characteristics of ethnic groups within the United States» society and the ways in which race, ethnicity, language and social class interact to influence student behavior» (Banks & Banks, 2015).

The resort is full - service, with everything a luxury traveler expects from a Ritz - Carlton resort, and more: • Lovely rooms and even lovelier suites; every accommodation has a lanai porch or balcony • A wonderful Ritz - Carlton Club Level lounge • Warm, personal service • Varied, high - end in - house dining • A perfectionistic spa • A cabana - laden pool complex with social, playful, and romantic appeals • 36 holes of superlative golf against a sparkling Pacific backdrop • From December to April, hanging with an annual tour group: Maui's migratory humpback whales

Home has become such a complex place of games, social groups, and so much more, that to simply hang a number like 23 million on it is like trying comprehend what 80 - 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe looks like.

Text: Marlborough Broome Street is pleased to present Walk - ins Welcome, a group exhibition that considers the barbershop as a complex metaphor for social space and imaginary projection.

Van Gorp's group collectively highlights a current of hybridism, where production technologies, scientific innovation, social media, and the Internet are spliced with painting and sculptural practices to produce complex and dynamic pictorial and visual experiences.

Hargrave's new group expressed a complex social, economic and spiritual philosophy based on naturalist principles and committed themselves to the creation of a new world.

He would continue painting these complex groups into the 1970s, portraying the social world of painters, poets, critics, and other colleagues that surrounded him.

At the same time, the world is awash in data far exceeding the processing capacity of human beings, and in an increasingly complex and sophisticated environment where communication tools such as social media are developing rapidly, people appear to be banding together into small, disparate groups of «island universe» and communities.

Nonetheless, when we do surveys we often group people into simple categories (for instance, Republicans vs Democrats) when the underlying reality is more complex (social conservatives, independents, etc).

In complex modern societies we can both buy into and repudiate various social groups at various levels, simultaneously.

Service focused with extensive knowledge of social work principles, techniques and practices and their application to complex cases, group work, and community issues.

Here at Morrison & Foerster, across all of our practice groups, we are seeing complex, cutting - edge legal issues arising out of social media.

Here at Morrison & Foerster, across all of our practice groups, we are seeing complex, cutting - edge legal issues arising out of social media.

The Parenting Skills Group, developed and led by Blacker and fellow UC Davis researcher Brandi Liles, is designed for parents and caregivers who are embarking upon or already in the process of reunifying with children who have been commercially sexually exploited.Educating parents around this complex issue and the trauma it causes is paramount to successful reunification, according to social workers and anti-trafficking advocates.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

In the traditional dictionary sense, it refers to someone of or «pertaining to a social group within a culture and social system that claims or is accorded special status on the basis of complex, often variable traits including religion, linguistic, ancestral, or physical characteristics.»