Sentence examples for choice of mate from inspiring English sources

Wharton's work recalls that not so long ago you were stuck with a foolhardy choice of mate for life.

There are a million films in which the staid and stable (but wrong) choice of mate loses out in battle with the dynamic and volatile.

The findings coincide with those of a number of studies showing that acoustic signals play a role in influencing female choice of mate in animals.

Current projects include a study of the effects of controlled burns on bird breeding, the relationship of songs with choice of mate, and whippoorwill territories.

Relatives can be distinguished from non-relatives, even to the extent of understanding who is genetically different enough from the smeller to be a good choice of mate.

One of the play's funniest moments comes when Mandy disappears into the bathroom, and Richard, having clearly registered Sarah's contempt at his choice of mate, offers a stinging retort.

When males and females are confined in cages and given no choice of mates, they will engage in hybrid matings, and hybrid eggs and nymphs are viable [16], [29].

Assortative, or selective, mating takes place when the choice of mates is not random.

An important part of the explanation may simply be the additional choice of mates that development and urbanisation bring with them.

Among the other possibilities considered — some rejected, many not — are that concealed ovulation gave females more freedom in their choice of mates, perhaps by reducing the frenzy of male competition.

A word of warning: you may end up as the oldest swinger in town, which could be a lonely role, and by then your choice of mates will be vastly reduced.