Sentences with phrase «than mate selection»

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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.

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.»

In 2008, when he made his maiden run, Bawumia's selection as running mate by Nana Akufo Addo stirred disapproval more within the NPP than without.

Darwin may have discovered sexual selection — the theory that some individuals are inherently more successful at choosing or competing for mates than others — but he was touchingly naive about sex.

This is evidence in humans of assortative mating, which is a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar traits mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating.

A 2006 study by Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi into the relative effects of preference versus opportunity in mate selection showed, while concluding that opportunity was more important than preference, that a woman's age is the single most important factor determining demand by men.

SIR — By having volunteers pair up pictures of people's faces («Hunkier than thou», December 11th) scientists trying to understand the causes of human mate selection are not doing much better than internet dating.

The mate selection process and the wounds and protections from childhood that are a major source of conflict in relationships have been presented more clearly in Imago than in other orientations.

And to clearly reframe the mate selection phenomenon as a positive striving for wholeness and healing rather than as the Freudian neurotic «repetition compulsion» was a major contribution of the Imago approach.