Sentences with phrase «larger than in females»

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in females.

Not exact matches

The two first female attorneys - general in BC history were appointed, Our 125,000 + civil service, finance ministry and largest Crown corporation were run by women, and more than a third of our government board appointees were women.

When a company's core values emphasized meritocratic values, those in managerial positions awarded a larger monetary reward to the male employee than to an equally performing female employee.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

Active genes, i.e. those that produce a large amount of RNA, seem more likely to be retained than less active genes; and genes that are more active in males than in females also persist for longer.

Olsson suggests that this is because larger males live more stressful lives than other lizards: they engage in more contests for female partners and are more likely to be attacked by predators.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

Hunt and his colleagues drew on large collections of ostracod fossils from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Louisiana State University, as well as additional fossils they collected themselves, to investigate whether species in which this male / female distinction was most prominent had been more vulnerable than others to changes in their environments.

Strikingly, despite the overall tendency for male brains to be larger, 10 of these regions had more modulatory neurons in females than in males.

But while studying Jataí in São Paulo, entomologist Cristiano Menezes noticed that the females at the hive entrance looked larger than other workers.

«We showed that when males are larger and more elongated than the females, those species tend to not last as long in the fossil record.

These potential explanations included: entering harsh environments in a large family group offers stronger chances of survival than as an individual; there is in fact no relationship between the two at all; and that a third variable may be at play, such as female polyandry, when the mother has multiple partners.

And in larger groups where up to three males are trying to impregnate the females — as opposed to «haremlike» groups where one male has all the gals to himself — «investing in sperm competition would be more cost - effective than investing in energetic vocal displays.»

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences.

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

Thus, females ended up with larger chewing surfaces for their size than did males, the researchers report in the September issue of American Naturalist.

Within the larger findings is another surprise: male birds with multiple mates actually tend to be duller in color than their female counterparts.

In species that favor multiple partners, like gorillas or orangutans, males can be more than 50 percent larger than females, apparently to help them fight off other males.

A typical corn field is some seven times larger than the home range for a female hamster, so the animals that live in these agricultural areas eat mostly corn — or whatever other crop is growing in that field.

On average, males had larger absolute volumes than females in the intracranial space (12 %; > 14,000 brains), total brain (11 %; 2,523 brains), cerebrum (10 %; 1,851 brains), grey matter (9 %; 7,934 brains), white matter (13 %; 7,515 brains), regions filled with cerebrospinal fluid (11.5 %; 4,484 brains), and cerebellum (9 %; 1,842 brains).

And although sexual customs and freedoms vary widely across human societies, women by and large have more choice in who they mate with than female baboons, she notes.

More than 10,000 of those households are headed by females, because many males and youth have left Basona to seek opportunities in large cities or other countries.

Working on the pattern of dental wear and facial size displayed in an extensive collection of fossilized skulls and jawbones of Paranthropus robustus (from cave sites in South Africa and dated at between 1.5 and 2 million years ago), a team led by Charles Lockwood concluded there was pronounced sexual dimorphism (males larger than females) and that males matured more slowly than females.

Furthermore, given that there are more than 10 million Medicare hospitalizations due to medical conditions in the United States annually and assuming that the association between sex and mortality is causal, we estimate that approximately 32000 fewer patients would die if male physicians could achieve the same outcomes as female physicians every year.43 The effect would be even larger if the associations between physician sex and patient outcomes also hold for non-Medicare populations.

In large nutritional surveys that have been done on young athletes ranging from 12 - 18 years old, the carb intake of female athletes tends to be on average 3 - 4 grams per kilogram of body weight lower than male athletes.

Whether it is a display of courage to impress a potential mate in the animal kingdom, or seeking to become stronger and larger than the average man, there is little doubt that much male behaviour is governed at a primal level by the evolutionary drive to impress females to increase the potential for mating opportunities and thereby perpetuate your genes.

In large nutritional surveys that have been done on young athletes ranging from 12 - 18 years old, the intake of female athletes is on average 3 - 4 grams per kilogram of body weight lower than male athletes.

These data indicate that the triceps muscle cross-sectional area is larger in males than in females and typically ranges between 19 — 31cm2 in young, healthy adults.

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Single women who live in large cities are much less romantic than their rural and suburban female counterparts.

DEADLINE — Hard to imagine there will be a hotter film package unveiled at Cannes next week than 355, a large - scale espionage film that Simon Kinberg will direct with an all - star international spy cast of Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. They'll play international agents in a grounded, edgy action thriller that aims to alter a male - dominated genre with a true female ensemble, in the style of spy franchises The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and James Bond.

Based on the iconic DC Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide, set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based film.

Female teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.

As noted earlier, female teachers are less responsive to increases in salary, meaning that the bonus required to keep them at a school will be larger than for males.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

Across Alameda County, female Superintendents are paid, on average, $ 29,167 less than male Superintendents in base salary ($ 250,700 vs $ 221,533), partially because all larger districts are male - led (again, scoring the importance of Johnson - Trammell's appointment for the largest school district in Alameda County).

In 2009, a larger percentage of female than male graduates completed a midlevel or rigorous curriculum.

On the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in math, the performance of male students exposed to the intervention was much higher than that of males not exposed to the intervention; for females, the difference was even larger.

- A significant relationship between sell size and righting performance; with bigger tortoises struggling to right themselves more than smaller tortoises, a phenomenon far more pronounced in males than females (Female tortoises grow larger than males).

In puppy mills, dogs live in small cages, often in the minimum legal size allowed (only six inches larger than the dog on all sides) and female dogs are bred as frequently as possiblIn puppy mills, dogs live in small cages, often in the minimum legal size allowed (only six inches larger than the dog on all sides) and female dogs are bred as frequently as possiblin small cages, often in the minimum legal size allowed (only six inches larger than the dog on all sides) and female dogs are bred as frequently as possiblin the minimum legal size allowed (only six inches larger than the dog on all sides) and female dogs are bred as frequently as possible.

The breed standard, updated in 1992, calls for a dog with medium bone structure ranging in height from 21 to 25 inches high at the shoulder, with males larger than females.

Upgrade the current commercial dog breeder law, requiring larger enclosures that have solid flooring and are not stacked Require that commercial breeders provide basic care, including constant access to exercise areas, nutritious food and potable water, socialization with humans and other dogs, regular and proper veterinary care, and more Require those selling 15 or more dogs in Ohio each year, regardless of where they are located, to also adhere to Ohio's humane standards Hobby breeders (defined as breeders with fewer than 8 female breeding dogs) as well as animal shelters and rescue groups are exempt from coverage.

These large solid black dogs can also weigh in at anywhere from 80 to 143 lbs with the males being considerably larger than the females.

This herding breed stands between 23 and 28 inches tall and weighs in between 55 and 105 lbs with the males being larger and heavier than the females.

On average, they stand anywhere between 6 and 9 inches, bearing in mind that males are often slightly larger than females.

The Anatolian Shepherd can weigh in anywhere between 90 — 150 lbs with the males generally being larger than females.

Males are in general larger than females.

In all species, the male scent glands tend to be larger than those of the female.