After 24 hours, the controlled +/GMRG4 and Rpd3Ri/+ cohorts had survival rates of 19%and65%5% respectively, yet only 58% of the rpd3Ri/GMRG4 had survived (SFig. 4A).
While WT mice had survival rate of 85% (6/7) on day 3, all Hdac6 transgenic mice survived.
"I have had survival jobs before – in retail and restaurants.
Between 3pm and 4.40pm, all four relegation-threatened teams had survival in their grasp.
"We had survival mechanisms built in to avoid sitting around debating whether we should run away from the saber-toothed tiger," Mr. Benningfield said.
Gory scenes would have had survival value (ie, "am I going to be next?"), while erotic ones would have had reproductive value.
Referring to the increasingly common sight of banks going for growth, coming a cropper, and getting bailed out, Haldane wrote, "In evolutionary terms, we have had survival not of the fittest but the fattest.
In a fascinating 1983 essay, "The Throwing Madonna, William H.. Calvin proposed that our ancestors developed a preference for throwing with their right arm because it had survival value, whereas throwing with the left arm did not.
"It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all".
The researchers also did not control for socioeconomic status, although Hispanic women, whose income is roughly equal to that of black women in Harris County, Tex., where the study took place, had survival rates equal to or better than white women in the study.
Caustic acid rain should have been especially harmful to freshwater ecosystems, yet species in these environments, including frogs and other amphibians sensitive to changes in water chemistry, had survival rates of close to ninety per cent — far higher than those that lived on dry land, where only twelve per cent endured the cataclysm.
