He reasoned that since birds, lizards, and other vertebrates that hatch out of eggs have similarly unfused skull bones when they are born, this trait must have evolved long before any mammal needed to squeeze through a birth canal.
There were other traits that he was not born with, traits that I encouraged and helped to instill in him: doing well in school, being a caring brother and a thoughtful friend.
The paper is part of a growing body of literature showing that creativity, rather than being an in-born trait as was long assumed, is more like a skill — something that can be learned and improved.
2 For a substantial period of time there has been significant consensus that leadership is not just an inherent 'in-born' trait.
The report found, however, that the speed with which new arrivals take on native-born traits has increased since the 1990s.
Confidence might be a more diplomatic way of putting it, a trait born, as Weir acknowledges, from a long history of dominance.
Despite all this, Icelanders are naturally optimistic, a trait born, perhaps, of living in one of the world's most punishing landscapes and depending for so much of their history on the fickle fishing industry.
Although I was never a tidy child, I was a great hoarder and collector, and this was doubtless a trait born of necessity, because I knew that if I lost things, they would be hard to replace.
As with Volvo in the '90s, Mr. Horbury coaxed Lincoln toward more expressive styling; the controversial grille worn by current Lincolns like the MKT, which has garnered unflattering comparisons to the mouth of a baleen whale, is a trait born of his tenure at Ford.
Two books argue that people are born with the traits that make them succeed or fail in the workplace.
Furthermore, these great leaders were thought to have been born with particular traits that accorded them greatness.
