First, selective pressures act cumulatively, as explained by Montalvo and Ellstrand (2000).
But in a conceptual sense every episode of judicial review is a "counter-majoritarian" act, as Alexander Bickel explained in his 1962 book, The Least Dangerous Branch.
Officially mandated curricula act as guidelines, explained David Rogers, curriculum leader for geography at Priory School in Portsmouth, in a teacher forum debating the change to the geography syllabus: No curriculum will ever be fully comprehensive, creative or innovative.
Zahavi (1977); Zahavi (1990); Zahavi (1995) and Zahavi & Zahavi (1997) contended that many altruistic acts can be explained as activities that signal the performer's claim to social prestige, and that increase rather than decrease the fitness of the altruist.
What always baffles me about those people who fight against equality "for the sake of the children" is that they always act like explaining homosexuality to kids is the same thing as explaining homosexual sex acts to them.
It was unfortunate that the government's recent abandonment of changes to the Racial Discrimination Act were explained as necessary for bolstered counter-terror measures.
"But nor should anyone be in any doubt that this act cannot be explained as an isolated hate crime, or the deed of one fanatic," she wrote, pointing a finger at Western occupation of Muslim lands and suppression of Muslim rights.
These were subversive acts, but, as Alex Ross explained in The Rest is Noise, "the long twilight of the Brezhnev regime brought a midnight harvest of religious music".
The orange, she explained, acts as a sunscreen, protecting the green layer underneath.
The canopy, David Lewis explained, "acts as a stitch" in the restaurant, linking a slotted bamboo-walled front area with a gangsterish back room lined in plush red velvet panels, by way of a large and ethereal blue fish tank, above.
