Sentence examples for group adaptations from inspiring English sources

Note that Williams, even though he "keeps his books" in terms of genes, argued against the notion that particular group traits were group adaptations because these group traits are not properly understood as benefiting the group in the proper historical selection scenario (Williams 1966).

For focus group adaptations and usability testing, demographic data will be entered into an Excel database and analyzed descriptively.

With an international group, adaptations were needed and an email system was used as it had already been successfully employed in several earlier studies [ 27– 29].

Although markings had been found on earlier objects such as animal bones and blocks of ochre, none attested to group adaptation of an artistic canon.

He did this by showing that a group benefit was not necessarily a group adaptation.

The article concludes with a discussion of the applicability of the historical cohort thesis for improved understanding of other immigrant group adaptation and homeland engagement.

That religious belief can function as a group adaptation is of course consistent with theistic belief; what about the bit about religious belief's theistic belief, for example—being fictitious?

An example of the first group would be the theory proposed by David Sloan Wilson, who says that religion is a group adaptation: "Many features of religion, such as the nature of supernatural agents and their relationships with humans can be explained as adaptations designed to enable human groups to function as adaptive units" (Wilson 2002, p. 51).

Vrba agreed that the spread of altruism should not be considered a case of group selection because "there is no group adaptation involved; altruism is not emergent at the group level" (1984, p. 319; Maynard Smith gives different reasons for his rejection).

Explicitly ambiguous roles, such as provisional roles, could generate good role fit through construction as well as promote group adaptation to external uncertainty.

Although Figure 4 groups adaptation responses into three, there are actually 8 types of adaptation measures identified in the study area (Figure 5).