Sentence examples for favored females from inspiring English sources

Two of these favored females and two favored males.

Rubens also clearly favored females of great heft.

Enhanced pollen dispersal favored females, thereby increasing the probability of population extinction, as pollen dispersal likely reduced pollen limitation when hermaphrodites became rare locally.

If natural selection has favored females with smaller brain and body volumes, it is not clear whether body size or brain size, or both were the targets of selection or how this sex difference is related to sex differences in reproductive strategy (Hrdy 1999).

Thus, beyond a certain body size threshold, this reproductive trade-off could have also favored females that do not use bridging locomotion and save resources to invest in reproduction, particularly when fecundity selection is the main driving force of body size.

Stillbirth and early neonatal mortality differences (rate ratios) among male vs female births both favored females (Table 3), although the mortality differences were much larger for early neonatal mortality (27%, 95% CI 23 to 31) than for stillbirth (8%, 95% CI 6 to 11).

Likewise, in all the minutiae density, except for right ridge convergent and bifurcation and ridge ending, absence of any of the minutiae in the thumb favored female participants.

In choosing names, Edwards favored female characters from the plays of William Shakespeare, such as Ophelia from Hamlet, Hermia from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Desdemona from Othello.

From his theater interests to entomology, Edwards carried forward an appreciation of Shakespeare in the designation of new insect species he favored female character names from Shakespeare's plays.

Women do so well in the humanist's world that recent studies (by Ruben Gur and Michael Gurian) suggest that school itself favors females and devalues the skills and brain patterns specific to males.

Luskin ([2001]) found that mental health court referral decisions tended to favor females, perceiving them as less risky to release into the community, regardless of their presenting criminal charge.