Sentences with phrase «of social selection»

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In the 2003 book «Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals,» the biologist Marlene Zuk points out that social groups of hens do have «pecking orders.»

While recipients come from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, fine arts, history, social justice, computer science, and mathematics, the selection criteria is a bit of a mystery.

Mr. Kandel is a member of the Cerberus Capital Management Compliance and Risk Management Committee, Securities Compliance Committee, Valuation Committee, Allocation Committee, Financial Risk Management Sub-Committee, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee, and Brokerage Selection Committee.

For example, this information may include your name, address, social insurance number, investment selection, beneficiary information, account holdings, financial situation and possibly your personal bank account information if you are signing up for certain account options that involve the transmission of money between your bank account and your account with us.

«To become and to be a community - member of the Schwab Foundation's selection of Social Entrepreneurs was one incredible mind - spreading experience.

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Preparation before the issuance involved developing an appropriate framework, in line with the social bond principles of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), which set out the underlying rationale of the bond and explained the methodology used with regard to such aspects as loan selection, the use of proceeds and reporting.

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

Social programs violate every aspect of evolution and self preservation or have you not heard of natural selection, survival of the fittest and Social Darwinism?

Or if you need to link love to something else, how about something plausible: Love is the emotional idealization of the mutual care that members of social species feel for other members of their in group and, as such, is the product of natural selection.

Since social activism has been a persisting and widespread UU characteristic, selection of representative figures becomes more difficult.

For Darwin the «moral faculties of man» were not original and inherent, but evolved from «social qualities» acquired «through natural selection, aided by inherited habit.»

This ideology which is present in mass media by virtue of their nature and social organization then shapes how they represent social reality through processes of selection and reinterpretation.

God is not required in Morality, it can be determined by the human social collective, and by the way is an important part of natural selection.

By recognizing the social force of the forms available, the preacher can make a conscientious selection for the purpose at hand.

According to the General Social Survey (GSS), about 30 percent of Americans would self - identify (through their denominational selection) as mainline Protestants in 1972.

(2) We have seen that the availability of alcohol and its attractiveness as a symptom, as determined by social attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness, have a great deal to do with the matter of symptom selection.

And since the news operations are themselves part of vast conglomerations of business power, the management of these corporations, through their selection of staff, their promulgation of policy «guidelines», and their intricate and subtle system of rewards and punishments, oversee and maintain a news environment that fosters not so much facts and understanding, as profit and the prevailing social order.

With the right software, venues can show a rotating selection of social media feeds, specials, digital menus, news, and much more.

As a result, there's plenty of differences in opinion between the pair, and some of their selections have unsurprisingly led to some criticism and debate on social media.

As ever, he's courted some criticism on social media with his selections and snubs, but on the whole he's been relatively fair in terms of looking beyond the top six and around the league to assemble his line - up.

January 10 — FIFA's video game partner EA Sports has launched a vote for its own FIFA Team of The Year, with voters using social media to post their votes and promote their selections.

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Paul Boyle, Chief Executive of ESRC, commented: «This latest selection of findings from the European Social Survey provides a valuable insight into attitudinal and behavioural trends across Europe.

Social selection would take care of the rest.

However, evidence from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.

Natalie Jones, the deputy chief of protocol who was appointed by President Obama in 2011 and resigned last month, is a leading candidate to be President Trump's new social secretary, according to two people with knowledge of the selection process.

Ghanaians took to social media to commend the President for his selection of the «Citizen Vigilante» to head the Office.

One of the companies that bid for Social Security National Trust's (SSNIT) Operating Business Suit (OBS) software deal, Persol System has rubbished the selection criteria for the contract.

«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

I am told that the selection of the only declared Conservative candidate, Col Tim Collins, who believes the police should be ratcatchers, not social workers, is not yet a done deal by the Kent Conservatives.

On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of respondents said grammar schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.

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.

The task he set was to construct a theory of social behavior based on natural selection.

People who are open - minded are beginning to realise that the results of our paper are beautiful: simple mathematical models based on standard natural selection are sufficient to explain the evolution of eusociality or other phenomena in social evolution.

The study not only demonstrates that the influence of kin selection may stretch beyond that of nuclear and extended family groups thus promoting co-operation in large social groups, but it is also the first study to show that kin selection may promote the communal construction and maintenance of an animal - built physical structure.

The finding affirms the importance of kin selection — a backbone of social evolution theory for the last half century — in driving social evolution and suggests a general model of animal social evolution, Chak said.

For social insects, I'm presenting as much evidence as I can summon for each of the two opposing views: Either collateral kin selection is the key, or group selection favored by very unusual environments caused them to be altruistic.

«The idea that social interaction may have facilitated or led to selection for us to be individually recognizable implies that human social structure has driven the evolution of how we look,» said coauthor Michael Nachman, a population geneticist, professor of integrative biology and director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

Examining substantial collections of annotated texts dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries, the researchers found that certain linguistic changes were guided by pressures analogous to natural selection — social, cognitive and other factors — while others seem to have occurred purely by happenstance.

A third major finding was that increases in social complexity were accompanied by a slowing, or «relaxation,» of changes in the genome associated with natural selection.

«The length of the penis in two species of seed bug is subject to complex patterns of selection, varying depending on the social context and whether selection is measured before or after mating,» said Dougherty in summarising the findings.

For example, Darwin's name appears in shorter forms in an even greater number of books, from «Social Darwinism» to «Darwinian selection.»

What they discovered was that men who reported health problems at the age of 16 had a lower probability of becoming fathers than men who did not report the same issues; this «selection effect» remained the same even when «family variables» like parental social class or siblings were taken into account.

Before you even start sending out applications, it's smart to prune prejudicial content (politics talk, margarita selfies, rants about your current boss) from your social - media accounts, says Therese Macan, a professor at the University of Missouri — St. Louis, who studies the process of employee selection and recruitment.

They targeted «counter-selectionist» social policies that perpetuated the lives of «unfit» people who would have perished (or never have been born) had natural selection been given a free hand.

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

This finding has important implications for the treatment of applicants during selection processes, report psychologists from the University of Basel and Purdue University in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

She argued that Charles Darwin's notion of a passive or coy female role in sexual selection stemmed from comparatively recent social conventions and didn't apply to most primates, including some human societies.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.