Missing, he argues, is a central character trait, a disposition to participate.
Our data show for the first time that the activity of two positional candidate genes for behavior, PDK1 and HR46, have direct genetic relationships to ovary size, a central reproductive trait that correlates with the nectar and pollen foraging bias of workers.
But a recent study by Magnhagen and Staffan (Behav Ecol Sociobiol 57 295 303, 2005) on young perch in small groups showed that boldness, a central personality trait, is also shaped by social interactions and by previous experience.
Coach Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay Packers icon, defined the central trait of great coaching and formidable teams: "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work".
Fluxes are the central trait of metabolism and Kinetic Flux Profiling (KFP) is an effective method of measuring them.
"All I can tell you is that Camus was the most attractive man I have ever met," William Phillips, the journal's editor, said, while the thorny Lionel Abel not only compared him to Bogart but kept telling Hawes that Camus's central trait was his "elegance".
We were beguiled by the wit and a sense of new-found clarity with respect to central traits of reality" (1966c, 657).
With greater psychological acumen than any of numerous earlier biographers, Fraser traces the queen's central traits of character -- her intense need for affection, intimacy and approval -- to her tortured relationship with an awesomely powerful mother.
The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification.
