Sentences with phrase «fecundity from»

These findings are important for understanding the evolution of signals of female reproductive state, how they influence male and female mating strategies, and how decoupling visual signals of fecundity from ovulation may affect intersexual conflict.

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All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.

Sanger's powerfully charged distinction between prudent and imprudent fecundity has grown to influence policies on everything from immigration to public schools.

The Kantian concept of the transcendental illusion, applied to the religious object par excellence, is one of inexhaustible philosophical fecundity; it grounds a critique that is radically different from that of Feuerbach or Nietzsche.

Never on record has observed fertility fallen so fast or so far, from extreme fecundity to predictable extinction.

After years of research, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Lincoln, UK, has proposed a revised version of the theory of fecundity selection which recommends an updated definition, adjusts its traditional predictions and incorporates important new biological terms.

Because stars form from gas, this fecundity demands a steady source of cosmic fuel.

They observed no effects from semen quality on fertility of fecundity regardless of age, despite the differences found in semen quality.

Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.

Because cats have evolved the fecundity of a prey species, they can usually reoccupy a habitat from which they have been extirpated faster than rival predators can arrive and breed up to the vacated carrying capacity.

Growling, mask - like features appear to emerge from Fecundity (1960), while the mix of thick and thin, sweeping brushstrokes and splatters of paint of Uncaged (1960) creates a mass of energy.

From Lin Tianmiao's overt exploration of sexuality, fecundity, and the aging and decay of the body, to Yin Xiuzhen's use of the embodied memories -LSB-.....]

These paintings were far from negligible; in fact, painting for painting, it could be persuasively argued that her 1944 canvas Natural History, a symbolical representation in blood colours of female fecundity, is better than equivalent early works by Rothko and Pollock.

Some of these assumptions include that: all corals live close to their thermal limits, corals can not adapt / acclimatize to rapid rates of change, physiological trade - offs resulting from ocean acidification will lead to reduced fecundity, and that climate - induced coral loss leads to widespread fisheries collapse.