Sentence examples for beneficiary question from inspiring English sources

A second and quite distinct version of the beneficiary question involves the notion of adaptation.

Finally, we can distinguish the issue of the entity that ultimately benefits from the selection process (the beneficiary question) from the other three questions.

Dawkins' version of the units of selection question amounts to a combination of the beneficiary question plus the manifestor-of-adaptation question.

Saying all this does not, however, address the fact that other researchers investigating group selection are asking the interactor question and sometimes also the manifestor of adaptation question, rather than Dawkins' special version of the (ultimate) beneficiary question.

He is asking a special version of the beneficiary question, and his answer to that question dictates his answers to the other three questions flying under the rubric of the "units of selection".

This last assumption is easily traced back to Williams' and Dawkins' views that alleles are the ultimate beneficiaries of any long term selection process; thus, the genic pluralist argument rests substantially on a view regarding the superior importance of the beneficiary question, which has been clearly delineated from the interactor question, above.

Examples of this approach used against the genic pluralists include Sober 1990, Sober and Wilson 1994 and Sober and Wilson 1998, all of which also appeal to aspects of the manifestor of adaptations and beneficiary questions to establish the failure of genic pluralism to represent certain selective events correctly.

In separate interviews, several Medicare beneficiaries questioned the priorities of officials in Washington.

It said: "The beneficiary in question became pregnant, at which point the IRC staff member distanced himself from the relationship.

Last year, the list featured just one female name, which would have been regrettable enough even if the beneficiary in question hadn't been child star Dakota Fanning.

Data collected included a parent beneficiary survey (questions on ECHO programme) and child development assessments of developmental status (ASQ), verbal comprehension, reading, writing and spelling, using standardised tests.