Behavioural syndromes may either indicate constraints to the independent evolution of behaviours or suites of functionally integrated behaviours favoured by selection [ 12], i.e. coping strategies.
Love-ins may have to wait until the weekend, when loud parties and wayward behaviour are favoured - just your thing, in fact.
A reading of the literature indicates that an overrepresentation of individuals with high levels of body dissatisfaction and/or eating-disordered behaviour is, in fact, the favoured explanation for the finding of mental health impairment in underweight women.
It is not necessary to claim that hominins became obligate confrontational scavengers (few if any animals are), only that confrontational scavenging was added to the arsenal of hominin behaviours as the currently most favoured strategy.
At 14 months [ 22], the point at which randomisation ended, the outcome strongly favoured medication (whether or not in combination with behaviour therapy).
Child behaviour and family functioning outcomes showed some improvement and favoured use of melatonin.
There is another strand to Varela's argument: he suggests that neural cell assemblies will flip between their favoured states given the slightest of pushes, and that this 'self-powered' behaviour may be the physical correlate of experienced alterations in phenomenal contents, e.g., the perceived changes in aspect of a Necker cube.
Of 170 child behaviour outcomes measured across 36 studies, 59% were statistically significant and favoured parenting programme over control, with the remaining outcomes showing no statistically significant difference (a neutral outcome).
It also found that the free-range behaviour of organic chickens "reduced the[ir] abdominal fat [by 65%], and favoured muscle mass development".
In a previous study in SCID mice bearing a human follicular lymphoma (RL-7), we demonstrated a marked difference in the behaviour of [18F]fludarabine in comparison with [18F]FDG immediately after their administration, a difference that favoured [18F]fludarabine.
