Sentences with phrase «young than a female»

But in species where males have a greater role in rearing young than females — such as seahorses and certain frogs and birds — it's the females that are more likely to compete violently with each other.

The excitement surrounds an experiment by Tomohiro Kono of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Manabu Kawahara of Saga University, who were intrigued by why male mammals usually die younger than females.

In fact, males can father far more young than a female could ever produce in a lifetime.

Not exact matches

According to Industry Canada, only 12 % of SME owners are younger than 40, only 22 % were born outside of Canada, and only 16 % are majority female - owned.

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.

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

The report found that the average wages of young female graduates are less than for male graduates.

Admittedly, the younger Spier was more interested in a female classmate than what Buffett was talking about.

The demon's victim is again female, only this time she is a young adult named Casey (Hannah Kasulka) rather than a child.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

Thank goodness — that's one pretty sick cult — the kids get raised to be breeding stock — girls to marry unquestioningly the old man being rewarded with another young bride, the boys to be very obedient in hopes they'll get a bride, rather than kicked out (when you have polygamy, you have to maintain a very high female to male ratio — guess how they do that).

Religious programs on American television have traditionally been viewed by older rather than younger people; females rather than males; and the less - educated rather than the more - educated.

The crucial thing here is that, ideally, the [female] soprano should also be much younger than one who would normally be used, to keep the suggestion that [the two singers] could be brother and sister.

Spoken like a middle aged woman: «My middle - aged female friends are not only sexier, smart and more confident than young women».

My middle - aged female friends are not only sexier, smart and more confident than young women, but they are most certainly not «bags of sand.»

Young males are less knowledgeable about sex and relationships than young females, but value the information more highly when it is provided to them (Blenkinsop et al, Young males are less knowledgeable about sex and relationships than young females, but value the information more highly when it is provided to them (Blenkinsop et al, young females, but value the information more highly when it is provided to them (Blenkinsop et al, 2004)

Research shows the young athlete should probably be eating a higher blend of fat before and during exercise, and female young athletes may benefit from lower carbohydrate intake than males.

Concordance for divorce was significantly higher in MZ than DZ twins; this was true overall, in both the male and female samples, for both younger and older twin pairs, and both when the twins» parents had been divorced and when they had not been divorced.

This reveals various interesting things: Green sympathisers are generally more likely to be female (57 per cent); younger (average age 41, with 31 per cent under 25); and non-religious (48 per cent) than the supporters of other parties.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York assemblyman accused of asking young female staffers to massage him, touch his cancerous tumors and join him in hotel rooms said Saturday he will resign rather than possibly be expelled from the Legislature amid sexual harassment allegations.

Let's remember that our current crop of women MPs are younger than their male counterparts - after the next election there will no female equivalents of the grand old men of the backbenches (Clarke, Tapsell, Hogg, Young, Winterton, Spicer, Shepherd, etc.) except for Ann Winterton.

Green voters are younger, more female, better - educated and more middle - class than the average — whereas Ukip voters are older, more male, more working class and far less likely to have a university degree.

Lopez resigned from the Assembly last month rather than face almost certain expulsion after a blockbuster report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics accused him of sexually harassing at least eight young female staffers in recent years.

«HIV - infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females: Study suggests macrophage activation as possible reason for differential bone loss in adolescent males.»

In a female whale, or a young male, the spermaceti accounts for less than a quarter of the animal's total length.

Taiwanese teenagers — and especially females — who become sexually active at a very young age are more likely to be rule - breakers and be more aggressive than their peers.

But more than 99 percent of young turtles hatched in sand soaked by warmer waters in the northern Great Barrier Reef were female — with one male for every 116 females.

Over 2 years we gathered data and saw that females have less opportunity to leave their burrows because they're caring for their young, but when they do leave, they're much more active than males are on the surface.

«Young females have a lower social status than males, but protection from older females seem to let young females join the group without fear of being attacked by mYoung females have a lower social status than males, but protection from older females seem to let young females join the group without fear of being attacked by myoung females join the group without fear of being attacked by males.

When biologists talk about male orangutans «realizing» that they have less to lose in mating than females, or female scrub jays «calculating» exactly when to abandon their young to a caring father, they're speaking metaphorically.

Many blue - chip researchers received «tiny» awards, whereas the success rates and award levels for both female and younger researchers were significantly lower than for male, more elderly counterparts, says geneticist Janet Rossant of The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto in Canada, and a former member of CIHR's governing council.

«The boys who had been encouraged when they were younger performed significantly better than their female counterparts, though the latter had objectively scored higher at a younger age.»

Young gay men, however, had more female friends than young heterosexual men in terms of the number of female friends they can talk about their sex life with and who they can count on to celebrate their birthday Young gay men, however, had more female friends than young heterosexual men in terms of the number of female friends they can talk about their sex life with and who they can count on to celebrate their birthday young heterosexual men in terms of the number of female friends they can talk about their sex life with and who they can count on to celebrate their birthday with.

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

With one female producing all the young, as with ants, the spider's behaviour may be closer to that of colonising social insects than to that of any other known spider.

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.

In his decades of research at the E.S. George Reserve, Congdon found that the oldest female Blanding's turtles he captured had more egg clutches than the younger ones, as well as more eggs per clutch.

Odds were higher among younger, female, more educated, and Democratic respondents to perceive effects from extreme weather than older, male, less educated, and Republican respondents.

The new life expectancies — 40 years for females and 73 years for males — suggest great whites reach sexual maturity later than previously thought, making young deaths more devastating to the species.

We emphasize that the role of the sexes would be reversed in this model if the matrix were to encode female preference for younger males (rather than male preference for younger females) and that the current role of the sexes may be interpreted equivalently as older females being out - competed completely by younger females, their dominant behavior driving the decline in female fertility.

Among younger normal - weight sedentary volunteers (217) and also in obese and diabetic subjects (218), females had higher IMCL in leg muscle (219), higher lipid area density, and greater number of IMCL droplets than males.

However, actual data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register showed that excess mortality was much higher in females, younger than 55 years with advanced renal disease, than in men (324).

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

This is a poorly preserved and fragmentary specimen of a 15 — 16 year old female habilis, dating to a little younger than 1.66 myr.

Also, couples with a female aged 35 to 40 had higher live birth rates if the male was younger rather than older, the study found.

Ask your butcher for a young female pheasant, since their flesh is juicier than older pheasants.

In large nutritional surveys that have been done on young athletes ranging from 12 - 18 years old, the carb intake of female athletes tends to be on average 3 - 4 grams per kilogram of body weight lower than male athletes.

As men and older people tend to be less flexible than the young and females.

She set a world record as the youngest female to run 100miles in less than 24 hours.

In the meantime, the young athlete should probably be eating a higher blend of fat before and during exercise, and female young athletes may benefit from lower carbohydrate intake than their male counterparts.