The phrase "avoiding novel" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of steering clear of new or original ideas, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "In his writing, he focused on avoiding novel concepts to maintain a traditional approach."
Alternatives: "steering clear of new ideas" or "eschewing originality".
As chicks develop over the first few days of life, they show increasing fear of unfamiliar objects; they allay this anxiety by avoiding novel objects and approaching a familiar one.
Individuals thereby might benefit from avoiding novel pathogens associated with immunologically dissimilar conspecifics.
Youth with ASD are at increased risk of avoiding novel situations as a result of insistence on routine and ritual (Gotham et al., 2013), further failing to experience opportunities for increased competence and confidence.
Individuals high in neuroticism react more strongly to stressful stimuli, are more likely to avoid novel situations and potentially aversive stimuli.
Instead of expending further resources to mold the common law into a new shape that is plagued with inconsistencies we should move to a statutory approach that addresses obvious loopholes in the common law but also defines the offense in a manner that avoids novel interpretations of a criminal violation with very serious criminal consequences.
(2014, Current Biology, 24, 965 969) found that blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, that had been trained to distinguish between rewarding and nonrewarding prey subsequently avoided novel prey that had the same colour (but not the same shape or pattern) as the nonrewarding prey.
Marples et al., however, showed that dietary conservationism (long-term neophobia) in predators could facilitate the evolution of warning coloration if predators avoid novel morphs for a long enough period of time.
In experiments with house sparrows, the latency to consume novel foods and avoid novel objects was shorter for an invading population than it was for an established population [28], providing evidence that behavioral innovation may be an important mechanism mediating invasion.
Larger brains may therefore help birds to exploit new food resources, and avoid novel predators and human disturbance [ 17].
One possibility is to mitigate the negative impact of HIREC with spatial or temporal refugia that allow organisms to more effectively hide from or avoid novel environmental stressors.
Children and adolescents with LD often have a limited vocabulary, slower processing speeds, deficiencies in memory and communication, and may have difficulties reading social cues and avoid novel social situations [ 22, 23].
