Most of the athletes interviewed, now in their 70's and 80's, came to wrestling to escape backgrounds of domestic abuse and poverty.
Yet, we expect that non-adaptive evolution of eukaryotes can be globally sustained as long as successful lineages, escaping background extinction and occasional mass extinction events, continue to provide enough eukaryote diversity through further speciation events.
"It is hard to escape your background when you are growing up," she says.
Do we not all, from time to time, desire to escape our background and ascend to some place better?
Near-starvation and penury inspired him to excel, for only by excelling could he escape his background.
But like others who escape their background, he was never sure — and perhaps still isn't — what he escaped into: an uncertainty that resounds in his work.
Determined to escape her background, she became a Broadway chorus girl and was spotted by studio bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924.
Well, of course, you look at the text, the cases, the history, and all those things, but you can't escape your background, your own experiences.
Pop music, along with sport and certain other strands of the entertainment industry, was one of the few avenues through which a bright spark from the working classes might escape their background and attain success.
But the Audi man (as he is known in German political circles from the four rings of the badge of the Vorsprung Durch Technik car) cannot escape his background: there is an oft-unemployed brother who complains about his brother's labour policies; his single-mother sister who has campaigned in front of the Chancellery in protest at benefit cuts for single parents.
