Both are survival tactics.
Like it or not, we are survival machines.
There are survival companies, mostly out West, rolling out shelters.
My poems are survival tools to help save our culture and the culture of the West," he said.
Unfortunately, bacteria are survival experts and have developed ways of resisting the toxic effect of these drugs.
The battleground is once more the human soul, and the stakes are survival.
I do believe that in general people who are more attuned to reality tend to be pessimistic; self-deception and lying are survival mechanisms that help us live healthier, longer lives.
Moreover, in keeping with the temper of the times, The Selfish Gene announced itself, from the first, as "a book about animal behaviour", arguing that "we, like all other animals, are (survival) machines created by our genes".
Part of the book's compulsion derives from Dawkins's appealing certainty that he is exploring a scientific world in which "we are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes".
"My guess is that these are survival phrases and vocabulary for troops," said Mr. Addis, whose company, based in Redwood City, Calif., has worked for the Navy, Raytheon and Global Nuclear Fuel, whose majority owner is General Electric.
