Sentence examples for acquired preferences from inspiring English sources

Wilson advanced a notion that is as significant for moral theory as the notion of norms dictated by universal, evolutionarily acquired preferences and indeed ultimately more useful, namely ambivalence.

Before birth, children have not only been affected chemically by the food and air ingested by the mother: at least by the last trimester of prenatal development, children are sensitive to, and have acquired preferences for, the melodic contour of their native language beings.

The energetic advantages of this acquired preference and its importance in trypanosomoses epidemiology are discussed.

The latest setback came after a Dutch independent foundation connected to KPN announced late on Thursday that it was exercising its right to acquire preference stock in the Dutch mobile phone operator, which would give it just under 50 percent of the voting rights in the company.

Because he remembers how he acquired these preferences, he chooses not to act on them.

The approach, implemented in the CABINS system, uses acquired user preferences to dynamically modify search control to guide schedule improvement.

In the nervous system, ERα could impair memories for socially acquired food preferences, while ERβ could enhance the acquisition of the task (Clipperton et al., 2008).

The Russian bureaucracy, whose members were often drawn from the military, thus acquired a preference for uniformity and militarism that did not foster respect or concern for the individual needs of the various regions and peoples of the far-flung empire.

Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman argue that if women simply acquired whichever preference for family size was the most widely adopted in their local cultural environment, then cultural inheritance would not have enough of an effect to overcome natural selection.

Similarly, under the S+/C- condition, rats rapidly acquired a preference for lever S which became statistically reliable on day 7.

Thus, despite near maximal cocaine sampling, rats under the S+/C+ condition acquired a preference for lever S as quickly as rats under the S+/C- condition.