Sentences with phrase «of mate selection»

Within this cultural milieu, a standard developmental trajectory in adolescence and early adulthood is to begin the progression towards individuation and to freely undertake the process of mate selection [17].

Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection.

Actually, the case could be made that our great, great grandchildren are a hidden cause of global warming, through the normal action of mate selection within our own generation.

Mechanisms of mate selection in the present — which form habits of buying — play a key role in the environment of future generations.

He began lecturing about love in the 1990s at the request of his patients, detailing the biology of mate selection, falling in and out of love, and how the brain - induced chemicals and genes control many aspects of the true everlasting love and how to grow it.

12 CDs each contain 60 minutes of guidance and insight on the most important areas of mate selection, with accompanying online self - assessments that help to pinpoint strengths, weaknesses and attractiveness to the opposite sex.

Not exact matches

Paleontologists note that the large opening would have made it rather useless in combat, so it may have been that it was used to regulate its body temperature, or that it was perhaps part of a sexual selection behavior designed to attract a mate.

Apparently not the selection of Representative Paul Ryan as Romney's running mate.

That's what's happening now with the selection of U.S. Representative Paul Ryan from Wisconsin as Mitt Romney's running mate.

Precise traits differ from species to species, but in some the mating process is actually the prerogative of the female — the strongest females choose the dominant males, and so the law of natural selection operates and the fittest survive.

Sex drives are intense during the late teens; the pain of loneliness is also a compelling force, as is the fear of being passed by in the mate - selection years.

Obama's lead in the Pew survey comes despite outspoken recent criticism of the Obama administration from America's Catholic bishops and despite Mitt Romney's selection of a Catholic running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.

Washington (CNN)-- Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate promises to cast a spotlight on American Catholicism in an election year when the tradition has already been a major focus.

«For Catholic outreach, a defining moment in this campaign has been (Mitt) Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate,» said Broderick Johnson, a senior adviser with Barack Obama's campaign who spearheads Catholic outreach efforts.

Biden and Ryan stand on either side of that debate, and their selections as running mates signal vastly different approaches to winning the Catholic vote.

On the tea side, while wellness and functional tea items remained popular like Vision from Numi Tea, a combination of guayusa hums with lemon verbena and ginger, and Power Breakfast from Stash Tea, a mix of black tea and mate, there seemed to be a greater selection of flavour - focused items.

Our selection of organic handcrafted loose - leaf Chai and Yerba Mate will transport you to paradise with each sip.

Playing 5 cams (Arteta was a CAM toó) is a very stupid thing to do, lack of work ethic, no pressing ethic, horrible tactis and team selection, WASTING A WHOLE WING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS MORONIC OBSESSION WITH CAMS... I can do this all day mate, i don't wan't wenger to stay, now his stupid tactis are ruining players that when played properly are AMAZINof work ethic, no pressing ethic, horrible tactis and team selection, WASTING A WHOLE WING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS MORONIC OBSESSION WITH CAMS... I can do this all day mate, i don't wan't wenger to stay, now his stupid tactis are ruining players that when played properly are AMAZINOF THIS MORONIC OBSESSION WITH CAMS... I can do this all day mate, i don't wan't wenger to stay, now his stupid tactis are ruining players that when played properly are AMAZING.

mate we should not have to blame the ref or eboue (even though he is not good enough for arsenal), we should blame the likes of wengers team selection / tactics....

We're just getting started, but we've also touched on how mate selection is also about restoring the feeling of our wholeness, the essence of love and more.

For example, in the first chapter of Getting the Love You Want, the author explores mate selection.

Republicans have gleefully predicted that GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino's selection of Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss as his running mate will pressure Gov. Andrew Cuomo to diversify the Democratic ticket this year.

Cuomo's selection of then - Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy to be his running mate sparked criticism from black leaders — especially the Rev. Al Sharpton — and led Cuomo to promise that his administration, should he be elected governor, would be the most diverse in modern memory.

The Governor's selection of Western New Yorker Kathy Hochul as his new running mate did little to distract the Buffalo media from the impending sale of the Buffalo Bills.

Asked for his reaction to Democratic gubernatorial designee Andrew Cuomo's selection of the mayor as his preferred running mate, Paterson replied:

Romney's selection of Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate put the federal budget and Medicare at center stage in the campaign.

If you want to see evidence of this, look no further than John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate in late August.

He's reached down to the bottom of the barrel,» Paladino said of Cuomo, whose LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, issued a press release questioning his selection of campaign aides.

The speaker spent much of the rest of his speech touting Mitt Romney and his selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his VP running mate.

On August 11, 2012, the Romney campaign announced the selection of Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice-presidential running mate.

He praised the selection of Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss to be Astorino's running mate.

McCain's selection of the charming, but rock - solid, outsider Sarah Palin as his running mate underscores the point.

The poll also showed a female running mate for lieutenant governor would help the ticket, thus leading to the selection of academic Betsy McCaughey as Pataki's running mate.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is not a sore loser in the veepstakes, saying he agrees with Trump's selection of a running mate and telling New York Republicans: «(Indiana Gov.) Mike Pence will do much more to unify the party than I would.»

What you've been hearing nationally about the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's running mate is the same thing you'd hear in New York political circles:

I think that it's quite likely that the appearance of feathers played a major role in their evolutionary origin and their diversification — that sexual selection, mate choice and other kinds of social communication were critical.

Darwin described sexual selection by mate choice specifically: Each species evolves its own standard of beauty by which it chooses mates.

The research investigates the role that facial features play in sexual relationships and mate selection and is published in Springer's journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Using genetic analyses the researchers confirmed that the creatures tend to choose mates of a similar size (a selection process known as assortative mating).

At the end of this selection process — 8 years of mate choice experiments in captivity — the researchers found that males from the two types of populations differed in how fast they could beat their wings.

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

Patterns of parental care and productivity of different combinations of male - female pairs from the same or different selection lines were then examined to see whether selection on mating behavior led to a correlated, co-evolutionary response in parental care behavior.

«Understanding animals» movement patterns and the encounters they bring about is a key step in characterizing a population's mating system and essential for determining how behavior both facilitates and is subject to sexual selection,» explained Kamath, a postdoctoral scholar in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

Clayton borrowed elements from tango and then added some moves based on avian sexual selection; as reference, she showed the Rambert dancers video of the mating ritual of birds of paradise.

Darwin, of course, acknowledged as much when he observed that mating behavior — so - called sexual selection — can exert its own, often maladaptive, impact on evolution.

By comparison, the study of what happens after mating (i.e., postcopulatory sexual selection) didn't get under way until the 1970s.

In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution, the authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a hybrid zone in southern California.

Sexual selection might have given the evolution of hairlessness a boost, as smooth, healthy skin signaled that a prospective mate was parasite - free, Pagel and Bodmer argue in a paper published online 9 June by Biology Letters.

«Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution.

Biologists studying mate selection in the wild search for changes in appearance or behavior that cause unsuccessful individuals to do better in the next round of courtship.