Men's traits are better designed for contest competition than for other sexual selection mechanisms; size, muscularity, strength, aggression, and the manufacture and use of weapons probably helped ancestral males win contests directly, and deep voices and facial hair signal dominance more effectively than they increase attractiveness.
But credit the producers with avoiding a speechifying "beauty contest," going directly to the need of each of the candidates to make a national impression in a hurry.
Some in the UFA had long favoured contesting elections directly as a political party instead of remaining on the sidelines as a pressure group, but Wood and other UFA leaders were implacably opposed to the idea.
Individuals compete with others in their social group for food, for example, by either scrambling to get to it first or else contesting others directly, which has led to the prevalence of dominance hierarchies as a way for both parties to avoid potentially damaging fights.
Ms. Madlala-Routledge does not directly contest that.
Mr. Hethmon, of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said the group was preparing "creative legal strategies" to directly contest the Obama administration's view that it can use its federal authority to exercise wide prosecutorial discretion in setting deportation policy.
They're in the shadow of club life — Ms. Ware more so than AlunaGeorge — an approach that's come to feel especially British, and one that doesn't directly contest American R&B on its own terms.
I'm fed up with it too and haven't previously written about this contest, the biggest directly elected mandate in Britain, even though it's just three weeks away.
Elements of the American media, like Fox News, are partisan to the point of outright distortion, while others are hampered by what Paul Krugman has called the "cult of balance", refusing to directly contest misleading statements by politicians and instead only offering the other side the opportunity of rebuttal, or leaving to columnists and commentators the task of judging political assertions.
