Sentences with phrase «complex social pattern»

«If you want to describe the economy or some other complex social pattern out there, do you really need to know what every shopper is buying in the supermarket?»

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These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

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.

Old World monkeys and apes that are more social have more complex facial patterns.

With these Old World monkeys and apes, the species that are more social have more complex facial patterns, the biologists found.

«We expected to find similar trends across all primate radiations — that is, that the faces of highly social species would have more complex patterning,» said Santana, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and who is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington and curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

«The length of the penis in two species of seed bug is subject to complex patterns of selection, varying depending on the social context and whether selection is measured before or after mating,» said Dougherty in summarising the findings.

Never before have researchers had ready access to decades» worth of social data that could be analyzed, and never before has it been so easy to find patterns amid the complex streams of numbers.