Sentences with phrase «tameness of»

The small size and tameness of island foxes are traits often linked to insular evolutionary pressures [1].

The relative tameness of the concept's exterior styling — apart from those laser - beam head - and taillight accents — suggests we may be looking at something that could look a lot like what we'll be looking at less than two years from now.

It rescues the whole from the tameness of a merely qualitative harmony (282 - 83).

Thus the contribution to Beauty which can be supplied by Discord — in itself destructive and evil — is the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

Not exact matches

Stock markets have seen steady gains with little volatility in 2017 — do not let the recent tameness instill a false sense of security as markets can periodically behave like wild beasts.

After thousands of years of inadvertent selection for «tameness» the camp wolves started to become dependent on their human hosts and to even look different to their still wild ancestors.

But even Discord may be preferable to a feeling of slow relapse into general anesthesia, or into tameness which is its prelude» (AI 263).

It came to symbolise his tameness after a summer of speculation about whether he would challenge Gordon Brown for the party leadership.

Humans may have waited until these creatures showed some semblance of tameness on their own before helping the process along she says.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

It wasn't until 2014, however, that researchers offered a single explanation for the phenomenon of floppy ears, smaller teeth, tameness and other «domestication syndrome» traits: a mild deficit in neural crest cells.

The work has shown that selecting for tameness alone can also produce a whole suite of other changes (curly tails, droopy ears, spotted coats, juvenile facial features) dubbed the domestication syndrome.

Scientists propose that tameness and the appearance of domesticated species may be linked to defects in multitasking cells in the early embryo.

A combination of increasing human population density, better hunting methods and climate change may have reduced the availability of prey and pushed some wolves towards scavenging, which favoured tameness and smaller size.

This time, one line of rats was selected for tameness and another selected for aggression.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in females.

A combination of increasingly dense human settlement, people becoming better hunters and climate change may have reduced the availability of prey and pushed some wolves towards scavenging, which favoured tameness and smaller size.

«This is a needed paper that convincingly shows some of the drivers of island tameness in lizards.»

Taming of the few «Island tameness is an old idea, but there have been few tests of it,» says Dan Blumstein, a behavioral biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Such changes could have been instrumental in the development of tameness and increased social interactions with humans.

Experimental selection for tameness in silver foxes [7], rats [8,9] and mink [10] have shown the power of the directed pathway of domestication.

Marguerite suffers from a storytelling tameness that erodes the power of its subject.

Three propulsion modes enable the driver to select the car's degree of tameness or aggressiveness.

Animal breeders long have known that it takes only a few generations of controlled mating to influence such behavioral traits as fierceness or tameness in dogs.

To bolster this perspective, Bradshaw and Nott went on: «Studies on foxes selected over 20 generations for tameness by a group of Soviet biologists showed that over successive generations the foxes gradually began to sound more and more like dogs.»

On top of this, it seems that some physical or cosmetic traits are genetically linked to tameness.

Breeds differed significantly in their fear of humans — a trait labelled «tameness / wildness».

The thought is far off - topic, but I'm reminded of a Russian study on breeding foxes for tameness, which resulted in numerous unexpected features (like border - collie coloring) within a decade.