Sentences with phrase «complex social structures»

You might not think it to look at them, but prairie dogs and humans actually share an important commonality — and it's not just their complex social structures, or their habit of standing up on two feet (aww, like people).

The authors say the record lends weight to the idea that we developed key traits — flexible diets, large brains, complex social structures and the ability to walk and run on two legs — while adapting to the spread of open grasslands.

He is fascinated with kitschy humor and absurdity, and how these elements can add a new layer to these complex social structures, combining and contrasting a range of classes and subcultures.

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.

The ACC and FI, though sometimes considered ancient in phylogeny, feature a large bipolar projection neuron, the von Economo neuron (VEN), which is found only in humans, apes, and selected whales - all large - brained mammals with complex social structures.

However, previous studies asserted that not only the diet, but complex social structures also helped create bigger brains in the primates.

One theory mentioned says complex social structures couldn't have developed without a belief in a moralising god or gods to keep cheats in check.

Recent digs show long - distance trade and complex social structures were around for longer than archaeologists thought.

Scientists have long suspected that humans evolved large brains because our hominid ancestors had to outwit and elude predators, learn to use fire, and develop complex social structures.

Given the little that is known about flukes, the discovery means that complex social structures might actually be common in these animals — and that division of labour may have first evolved when life on Earth was dominated by worms.

«They have very long lifespans and complex social structures, and they do a lot of mimicry.»

All of a sudden, there's an explosion of complex artifacts, symbolic representation, measurement of celestial events, complex social structures — a burst of creative activity that almost every expert on prehistory assumes must have been connected with the sudden emergence of language.

Like humans, primates have complex social structures governed a dominate male figure.

Human beings are utterly dependent on a complex social structure for their survival.

«On top of that, Sungazers seem to have a very complex social structure, and so keeping them in random combinations in a 1 metre long glass tank is not going to be very productive in terms of getting them to reproduce.»

«The intricacy of killer whale communication reflects their complex social structure and mental comprehension,» Rachael Griffin, a biologist with Aquagreen Marine Research in Victoria, British Columbia, told Live Science in an email.

(in biology) A type of large black bird with a complex social structure that perches in trees and is known for its boisterous call.

«This allows them to socialize naturally by giving them the space they need to work out their complex social structure.

In detailed, large - scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.more

Despite their reputation as territorial hot - heads, bears in the wild actually possess a complex social structure that can make them seem downright charming.

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We still need his genius to see that human behavior is complex, that demonic possibilities are built into church and social structures, that human pride and spiritual arrogance rise to new heights precisely at the point where they are closest to the Kingdom of God, and that advance brings vulnerability to new temptations.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

I take this to mean that the whole psychophysical organism is a complex structured society providing a favorable environment for its component societies.1 The question is whether the soul retains social order, and so its dominant defining characteristics, apart from the body.

Apart from the complex content it makes possible, there are no special defining features to be genetically transmitted, in separation from the whole structured nexus, the soul would have no distinctive social features.

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

And the encounter with truth requires that we understand the methods appropriate to its complex character: truth about structures is discerned primarily through the objective methods of the sciences — natural, social, historical — and through the rigorous application of critical thought; truth about meanings is learned through the intuition and exercise of faith, hope and love.

Both movements share the centrality of the conversion experience; however, in Puritanism the conversion experience was set solidly in the middle of a complex social and institutional structure.

Thus a complex structured society provides the requisite environment for heightened satisfaction by some members of the society; and in turn the emergence of novelty enables that society to make thoughtful adjustments of its social structure to meet novel situations.

each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social behavior as well as the cognitive and social structures that create and define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.

Humans have a remarkable ability to synchronize to complex, temporally structured acoustic signals, an ability which is believed to underlie social coordination and may be a precursor to speech.

A new study on monk parakeets reveals a sophisticated social structure with layers of relationships and complex interactions.

A new study — the first to quantify the social lives of parrots using social network analysis — provides intriguing new insights into parrot sociality revealing a sophisticated social structure with layers of relationships and complex interactions.

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.

Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding of the structure of animal social networks.

Extracts taken from the following texts: - Jane Eyre - Mill on the floss - Nicholas Nickleby - Wuthering Heights Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore Victorian context including schools and social classes - analyse structure - analyse language - explore Victorian school experiences - write imaginatively - explore connotations of language With a large focus on 19th century texts in the new 9 - 1 specifications for both language and literature - exploration in KS3 is vital and these resources enable students to access appropriate extracts taken from complex literature on themes that they will be able to relate to.

And there is no question that teaching is increasingly demanding and complex given the persistent inequities in our economic and social structure that drive large opportunity gaps among our nation's children.

In contrast, the work structures of a small school are less complex and its social networks are typically fewer in number.

This social interaction around complex informational text will lead to rich, structured discussions.

Some colonies are organized in more complex structures, such as relative hierarchies, where social status of individual cats can vary on their location, the time of day, or the activity the cats are engaged in (particularly feeding and mating).

The Orcs we know from the movies and books are not complex creatures, and we have no information regarding their social structure and life.

Ledare's complex and critically acclaimed project maps structures of social convention and photographic representation onto the triangular relation between himself, his ex-wife Meaghan Ledare - Feddery, and her current husband Adam Fedderly.

In the exhibition, titled «Parallel Realms», Siti takes on the fast social transformation and the obscurity of the future by reproducing the Kurdish cultural figures that shaped his visual vocabulary in a complex and contemporary structure.

One of the starting points of her research is the study of «Support Structures»: through her practice, writings and theoretical reflections, Céline Condorelli investigates the complex apparatus made of objects, cultural and economic elements, social and professional relationships that constitute the net of relations we use to engage with the world.

Through shared processes of documentation and archiving, the artists address culture as a form of representation in order to examine complex issues of social & political structures.

My Model / MySelf is at once autobiographical and reflective of the capitalist impulse to seek validation through identification with external stimulus due to the failure of traditionally binaristic social and familial structures to recognize the realities of complex personal multiplicities.

Between 1980 - 88, the artist produced approximately 1000 works on paper, which articulate complex narratives, revealing flawed power structures and hinting at fundamental failings in social discourse.

The vervet monkey has a complexed and fragile social system — their persecution is thought to have impacted on troop structures and diminishing numbers.»

Social Architecture, Judicial Peer Effects and the «Evolution» of the Law: Toward a Positive Theory of Judicial Social Structure Georgia State Law Review Symposium, Dynamical Jurisprudence: Law as a Complex System (2008)