The quest for «strong, keen, efficient and great» offspring came to the fore during the past century, when the dominant classes became concerned with
making fecundity discriminating.
Not exact matches
Such passages as these not only contain an exact affirmation of the essence of the eucharistic mystery, but also
make an equally exact distinction between the essential mystery and the further effects in which its
fecundity is manifested: the growth of Christ's mystical body, the consecration of the cosmos.
Because of quirks of their haplodiploid genetics, female workers share more genes with their sisters than with their own offspring, so it
makes competitive sense for them to sacrifice their own
fecundity to help their colony queen mother produce more sisters.
Through juxtapositions of texture, color, and sensibility, they're also bold and gripping; particularly her paintings, which show the
fecundity of unrestrained mark -
making.