Nevertheless, he claimed that his birthplace was south London, as if this conferred some special distinction.
If depression conferred a problem-solving benefit, it should not become a chronic or autonomous condition — which it is for about half the patients.
For years now it has been a social stigma to hum a few bars of "The flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la", as if it conferred immediate membership of the Conservative party.
Among the Dogon, the nearest we have to a population of early humans, there is no evidence of synchrony and surely, if it conferred any biological advantage, we would see it among these women.
So when you cross two plants and look at the offspring, you can see if you conferred a trait to that plant.
Researchers from the University targeted the specific compound of Xanthohumol, that is commonly found in beer, and aimed to identify if it conferred any health benefits to its consumers.
Since tir1-1 wableble to confer some level of resistance to Arabidopsis seedlings, we were interested to test if tir1-1 conferredicambaba resistance to older plants.
To unravel these benefits, we monitored the emergence of phenotypic complexity to determine if it conferred better adaptation and higher fitness.
While it would be ideal if crowding conferred some benefit to perception in light of its cost, the experiments here suggest that crowding does not benefit our perception of ensembles.
Once again, Mr. Trump put his hand on Mrs. Clinton's back, this time with a little pat, as if to confer his approval on a job well done.
As if that somehow conferred objectivity.
