Sentences with phrase «island dwellers»

Now, William Cooper Jr of Indiana University — Purdue University in Fort Wayne has tested Darwin's hypothesis on 66 species of lizards from around the world and found that island dwellers tended to be more docile than their continental relatives — the strongest evidence yet for this classic idea.

In spirit as well as accessories, the bondage - prone island dweller, dreamed up by Marston as «psychological propaganda» for a more enlightened American society, owed crucial elements of her now - legendary persona to Marston's everyday life.

Take Shelter (2011) was a Rust Belt thriller about a raving father plagued by apocalyptic visions he doesn't fully trust; the more freewheeling Mud (2012) charted the relationship between two boys and a mysterious island dweller on the Arkansas River.

About 80 percent of recorded extinctions have occurred on islands and 40 percent of the world's endangered and threatened species are island dwellers.

Willis Eschenbach points out that, according to the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms, of the 61 mammal species known to have become extinct in the past 500 years, 58 were island dwellers, hunted to death by European colonisers.

Ric, the alternative energy system on his blog that some people are swooning over was worked out over thirty years ago by sailboaters and island dwellers.