Much less is currently known concerning how resource variation affects the strength and direction of selection on human life history, despite this being one of the basic premises of life-history theory.
"The very idea of progress, that the future will be better than the past — which is the basic premise of American life — is a translation of the Christian idea of providence," Critchley told me.
The basic premise of the analogy to life on Mars goes like this: Some three to four billion years ago, Mars was a warmer and wetter place owing, in part, to a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide that heated the planet through the greenhouse effect.
The basic premise of this machine — long battery life, high-resolution screen, great keyboard, excellent portability, low price — makes it a great choice against most of the other netbooks on the market.
Roeg describes the basic premise of the story as principally being that in life "nothing is what it seems", and even decided to have Donald Sutherland's character utter the line a scene which required fifteen takes.
It's about discovery and new life it's really the basic premise of Star Trek," he said.
For health professionals, conducting executions conflicts with the basic premise of their professions: to help others, and to sustain life.
It is hard for the reader to buy the basic premise of Solanka's career: that he is a former Cambridge professor who abandoned the academic life to become the wealthy creator of a wildly popular doll named Little Brain.
The basic premise of all Qurʿānic teaching concerning death is Allāh's omnipotence: he creates human beings, determines their life span, and causes them to die.
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