Sentence examples for a social behaviour from inspiring English sources

Ofwono Opondo, a government spokesman, tweeted on Friday that "this comes after 14 medical experts presented a report that homosexuality is not genetic but a social behaviour".

And the only way to eradicate a social behaviour is by talking about it and filling all our squares, schools and businesses with discussions on how we can evolve to a better and feminist society.

Laughter is a social behaviour: you're more likely to do it if you're with someone else than if you're on your own, and a bit more if you like them.

Why might a social behaviour reduce an animal's short-term fitness but boost its lifetime fitness?

Flocculation has been suggested to be a social behaviour and to act as a mechanism of survival under nutrient limitation or high ethanol concentrations (Soares 2010).

According to the standard definition, a social behaviour counts as altruistic if it reduces the fitness of the organism performing the behaviour, but boosts the fitness of others.

A positive pro-social tendency then shows pro-social behaviour, whereas a negative pro-social tendency shows a-social behaviour, since the tested individual actually withholds a reward from its partner.

Robert Provine has demonstrated that in the wild, laughter is a largely social behaviour, a way of making and maintaining social bonds.

This provides scholars and public health practitioners information on the prevalence of an important social behaviour that is a risk factor for later behavioural and emotional problems [ 2- 8].

Social amoebae (Dictyostelia) are a diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic microbes that display a unique social behaviour upon starvation in which cells congregate and then some die to help others survive and disperse.

In the same vein, alcohol use is a key social behaviour that has been consistently associated with increased risk of HIV acquisition in many settings.