The new preference for less-conspicuous brands, like Margiela, reflects in part the Chinese government's clampdown on a culture of gift-giving after the online community exposed politicians sporting expensive watches that did not match their party-paid salaries.
This case contrasts with those of many other animals in which predation risk decreases the use of and preferences for highly conspicuous courtship signals [4], [5], [6], [7] or reduces the extent or frequency of mate searching [8].
Trump signifies everything Romney presumably doesn't want people to associate with himself -- conspicuous wealth, arrogance, hubris, and a distinct preference for money over all other human values.
It is also possible that evolutionary adaptation processes regarding behaviour or habitat preference made the species more conspicuous.
However, most insect epithelia actively transport K+ in preference to Na+; and the conspicuous story in the FlyAtlas dataset is the dominance of epithelial transcriptomes by inward rectifier K+ channels (Table 1).
The balance of evidence suggests that he did have sexual relationships with men as well as women, but it could be argued that his amorous or sexual preferences were defined by his conspicuous reluctance to settle with any one partner.
However, predation need not weaken sexual selection if, under high predation risk, females exhibit stronger preferences for males that use conspicuous signals that help females avoid their predators.
Of particular interest are genes that encode conspicuous secondary sexual traits in males and the genes that influence female preference for such traits [ 1].
However, the general assumption is that sexual dichromatism — with males typically more conspicuous than females — is maintained by ongoing sexual selection, either through female preference or advantages in male-male competition.
You may have heard how both sides in the debate over the World War II memorial on the Mall in Washington, the most conspicuous non-Minimalist memorial of recent years, claimed to speak for the preferences of the war veterans, as if veterans were a monolithic group.
