Sentences with phrase «more kin»

Fiction can make history seem more alive and thus more kin to life as we know it.

Lime Rock is more a kin to Laguna with low top speed.

With a few bones of his own, Ruben contends that dinosaurs are more kin to a crocodile than a cockatiel.

Not exact matches

Last December, Reuters reported that more than 20 bodies donated to an Arizona broker were used in U.S. Army blast experiments - without the consent of the deceased or next of kin.

The second part of the KIN solution focused more specifically on increasing exposure of startups, in order to help launch them and in order to help create fertile ground for more.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Then God had more giggles and killed everyone except Noah's kin, and what the heck, all the animals too.

Maybe, it is a kin to a fear in a Faithful if he or she has the relationship with God or Gods that is correct (religions)... but at least it is a Faith that something is out there so there is not the same level of fear we witness here from some Atheist and the ones that scream the most probably have more fear than the others.

It takes more than regular participation in worship to come to appreciate that it is the church, and not blood kin, that is the family of faith.

They are those extra-large, rather weathered - looking oranges with a funky knot on the top crated next to their more flawless kin, the well - known navel.

They spend less time in bars and more time in church, less with friends and more with kin.

kin2Skin aims to make its services more easily accessible to parents or kin who are finding it more difficult to bond with their babies or who are in a particularly vulnerable situation, such as helping babies with additional health care needs.

kin2Skin aims to make its services more easily accessible to parents or kin who are finding it more difficult to bond with their babies or who are in a particularly vulnerable situation.

The UPPAbaby 2015 Vista Stroller with Seat Liner (Lindsey Wheat) grows to oblige your new expansion right from conception with their more seasoned kin close behind.

It's possible that squid clutching large prey items — such as their kin — are less able to swim away from the vehicle, meaning that they'd be counted more often than squid eating lighter meals, he says.

The antiquity of these creatures suggests two evolutionary scenarios, the scientists say: Either eurypterids diversified quickly during the early stages of the Ordovician period (which began about 485 million years ago), or their lineage, including yet - to - be-discovered ancestors and kin, evolved more slowly and originated even further back in time during the Cambrian period — possibly during the Cambrian explosion, a period of evolutionary diversification sometimes called «life's big bang,» which began about 542 million years ago.

For example, unselfish behaviour can sometimes be explained by kin selection: in animals, the larger the degree of relatedness, the more likely they may be to help.

Biological kin selection means that organisms may be more willing to help others in relation to how many genes they share.

Nowak disagrees: He argues that so - called kin selection is just one of several mechanisms driving a more general impulse toward cooperation.

All animal species are divided among roughly 30 phyla, but these phyla differ dramatically in how many species they contain, from a single species to more than 1.2 million in the case of insects and their kin.

A cooperative living structure was more likely to be favoured when both parental genes were shared by siblings, a trait known as «kin selection.»

«He is unlikely to relate to his kin any more.»

The young owls that heard the squawks of their hungry kin delayed eating each rodent by an average of half an hour; those that heard cries indicating their invisible nest - mate was full ate the mice more quickly.

Although chimps and humans are indeed closest kin, 15 % of the human genome more closely matches the gorilla's.

These soldiers» will to fight also depends on identifying more closely with groups of like - minded comrades than with biological kin, the team reports September 4 in Nature Human Behavior.

They have lower average cortisol levels, weigh more, and grow more steadily than those living with stepparents or single parents with no support from kin.

Such evolutionarily novel circumstances, the researchers argue, are creating conditions where the strong desire to be a parent — no matter the source of a child's genes — can override evolved, kin selection behaviors that might otherwise lead parents to invest more time and resources in their own offspring.

If their stellar kin are similar — not brown dwarfs at all but sneaky double bodies — there may be more free - floating planets in our universe than we thought.

Health research typically focuses on individual behavior, leaving the role of kin and friends more of a mystery, she says.

At the meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Poland last year, Paul Mathews and Rebecca Sear of the London School of Economics reported that women in the UK are more likely to start a family if they have strong kin ties, particularly if the relatives live within 80 kilometres and are in regular contact.

Mothers with sons were found to spend more time with others and to associate with more of their kin.

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates — spiders, scorpions and their kin — branched off from the family tree of other arthropods — including insects, crustaceans and millipedes — more than half a billion years ago.

COLLEGE STATION — Johnsongrass and sorghum might be considered «kissing kin,» but a Texas A&M AgriLife Research team wants to know if there is more going on in the grain sorghum production fields and bar ditches of South and Central Texas than meets the eye.

But human altruism can not possibly be controlled by a single gene, and different genes that might produce altruistic behavior probably interact, making the kin selection equation quite a bit more complicated.

Cooperative behaviors in ants are rooted in the kin selection advantage that shaped these insects» evolution: The female workers pass more of their own genes to the next generation by supporting their egg - laying mother than by laying eggs of their own.

Interferometric observations obtained with the VLTI and the KIN have identified near - and mid-infrared excesses attributed to ho... ▽ More [Abridged] Debris disks are extrasolar analogs to the solar system planetesimal belts.

[7] Prairie dogs with kin close by called more often than those that did not have kin nearby.

I'm more of a shop online in my PJ's with a cup of coffee (or glass of wine) in hand kin of girl.

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According to this prefab Apocalyptoid adventure saga, a shipwrecked kid, left for dead by his marauding Viking kin on a wild North American continent circa A.D. 1000, was raised by gentle natives, then grew up to protect his adopted people when more marauding Viking kin arrived to ply their marauding Viking ways.

With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's «Prime» relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history.

Here, where corners are strung together with the severity of a shark wound, the titanic sedan feels more similar to its much smaller kin.

It's more stylish than its kin but still on the conservative side.There's a wraparound air dam up front, a deck - lid spoiler in back and a trace of plastic cladding over the rocker panels from wheel well to wheel well, but it takes «Intercooled multivalve DOHC» lettering along the front quarter panel to give onlookers more visible evidence this isn't an ordinary Spirit sedan.

A much needed and timely arrival, with 2 inches more wheelbase, it's thus overall longer than its kin the GMC Acadia.

I have seen a couple e-books that are more expensive than their dead tree kin.

In his world, silver linings are fool's gold, and happy endings are more the stuff of fantasy than nixies, boggarts and their kin ever could be.

And when the BVI's «real police» task Teddy with informing Kelliher's nearest kin of his death, Teddy makes an even more surprising discovery: there's no record that Paul Kelliher ever existed.

These big, robust pooches are kin to English bulldogs, but are speedier and have more elongated physiques.

Hunting, because it provided necessary food for the hunter and his close kin, was more an enjoyable form of work than recreation.