Sentences with phrase «so than females»

Both species are also territorial, with intact males being much more so than females.

But her preferred mode is celebration — and of nothing more so than female friendships, which she sees as «foundational» and «largely unacknowledged.»

I feel like Mario games, as you know, have done lots of representation of male characters over the years, perhaps much more so than female — so it's actually really nice to be able to have a female playable character in the game.

Not exact matches

In the Olay spot, a swaggering young military pilot hits on his female instructor, only to discover to his astonishment that she is a former teacher of his, and so, we are to surmise, quite a bit older than she looks.

You might wonder if this number is so low because there are more male - led companies than female - led.

Females actually make better wrestlers at that level, as they are generally more flexible and have a lower center of gravity so they can grapple and get out of holds easier than the males of similar weight class.

But we are presently in a culture so estranged from our bodies, and male - female relationships are in such an overall mess (with sex redefined in terms of power rather than vulnerability), that it is hard to know where to start.

«I didn't know at that time that I could be anything other than female... so I pushed it down.

project, directed by Mason, the first female dean of the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, found that women who had children within five years of receiving their doctorates were far less likely than men who had done so to acquire tenured professorships.

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

In order to demonstrate «equality» with male students and so as not to seem prudish, college females drink more than they otherwise would.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

I agree with Douglas Farrow's first two theses — that homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species and so characterized more by differences between male and female than by variation — but with the qualification that these sound like empirical claims, and it is perfectly conceivable that advances in reproductive technology might make sexual dimorphism and difference irrelevant.

So though my ideal church would permit questioning, * real * questioning that leads to conversations, discussions and inquiry, rather than pat answers — include teachers of all sexes (female, male, intersex) and of all gender expressions and sexual orientations, it would by definition exclude a bunch of people.

The human male is the strongest, smartest animal there is on the planet, he's definitely stronger and smarter than the female of the species... so if man is like a god on this planet, then that must mean that God must have made man in HIS image.

(I avoid referring to God as He, because God, containing all things, is so much more than male and / or female) I, too, called out from the depth of despair and was surprised to immediately receive an answer, and an instruction, tailor made for me, which I won't detail here; though I'd love to sit down with all of you and buy a round of beer, kosher wine, juice or whatever and chat some more.

Williams is 31 and is so much better than every other female player in the world that it's tough to not just sit back and marvel.

I have always had male and female friends, so truly that comment from SlackrInc stems from fear rather than any kind of truth.

So the issue is more about society as a whole more than a difference between males and females

So those numbers are very low, even lower than the percentage of female characters on the screen.

Your hair, specifically, may appear healthier than ever since the excessive female hormones can increase the percentage of follicles in the growing phase so that only a few stragglers will fall off.

If they do so, it will probably be because of their ideological beliefs in general rather than because of an automatic female response of empathy.

«Perhaps it is not so surprising that on average male doctoral students co-author one more paper than female doctoral students, just as, on average, male doctoral students can probably run a mile a bit faster than female doctoral students,» the reviewer added.

And so did the scent of chemicals from the armpit, called axillary secretions, some of which are found at higher concentrations in male mammals than in females.

«This shows that there are more cells that modulate signals and exert temporal control in areas regulating reproductive, social and parenting behaviors in females than in males, with one exception so far,» says CSHL Associate Professor Pavel Osten, the team leader.

Crime levels in the country were increasing, and it became more risky to drive long distances, especially alone as a female and at night, so I did not want to commute for more than an hour a day.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

Owing to a quirk of ant reproductive biology, the female workers are three times more closely related to the queen's female offspring than they are to the males, so, in theory, the female workers should skew the sex ratio in favor of females.

«If so, are some males better at this than others and, by extension, could the approach used in this report be used to predict which male will be chosen by a virgin female?»

Female preemies tend to do better than males do, especially where language is concerned, so the imbalance could have skewed the group's analysis to favor a positive result.

«Right now, pregnant females foraging offshore in summer must wait up to a month longer than they did just 10 years ago for new sea ice to form so they can travel to denning areas on land,» says Steve Amstrup of the USGS.

So even though male Neandertals and female modern humans probably hooked up more than once over the ages, they may have been unable to produce many healthy male babies (such as the reconstruction of this Neandertal boy from fossils from Gibraltar)-- and, thus, hastened the extinction of Neandertals.

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.

So if a female goes to a place and it is not a successfulnesting site, the old ones know where to find the next - best placebetter than the young ones.

«However, whereas in human females the masculine characteristics are less common within the population, in fence lizards, we see the opposite pattern: About three quarters of the females are so - called «bearded ladies,» making masculinized females much more common than their counterparts with little or no blue ornamentation.»

«A slam dunk for women head coaches — so drop the bias: New study shows female basketball coaches face more biases than male coaches despite performing as well.»

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So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

Females may have more at stake in this assessment than males, she thinks, because females spend their entire lives on the same territory, so they use scent marks to assess the risk that neighbouring groups will enFemales may have more at stake in this assessment than males, she thinks, because females spend their entire lives on the same territory, so they use scent marks to assess the risk that neighbouring groups will enfemales spend their entire lives on the same territory, so they use scent marks to assess the risk that neighbouring groups will encroach.

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Females usually lay only two eggs, but in 1979, Merton found that if it loses a clutch, it will try again, so the birds have the potential to produce many more offspring than they actually do.

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.

Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit, human society is all about the age - old business of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size of our testicles, the manifest oddities of the female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.

«Male birds are infected more often than females with the diseases that mosquitoes carry, so it makes sense that mosquitoes bite males more often.

Male bats from Saccopteryx bilineata are considerably smaller than females, so they are not in the position to enforce copulation.

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.

«Studies have shown that estrogen can actually combat infections, so that's why we see it more in males than in females,» says Barbarite.

Leonore Tiefer, PhD, a psychiatry professor at NYU School of Medicine with more than 35 years of experience as a sexologist, goes so far as to call the idea of female sexual dysfunction «disease - mongering,» and she has spearheaded a campaign against it.

The reason women are so much more prone to these infections than men is because the tube that leads to the bladder (the urethra) is really short in females — being only about four centimetres long.

So now you know that female children naturally burn fats better than male children, children in general burn fat better than adults, and females adults burn fat better than males adults.