Sentence examples for if that mate from inspiring English sources

Strang defended his new tenet by claiming that, far from enslaving or demeaning women, polygamy would liberate and "elevate" them by allowing them to choose the best possible mate based upon any factors deemed important to them even if that mate were already married to someone else.

We found that both men and women expressed more interest in engaging in a relationship with a potential mate if that mate was paired with an attractive partner.

Imagine if you said that, mate.

If behavior indicated that mating might occur, observations continued until mating was confirmed or discarded, or until the end of the daylight.

Mere presence of a sperm plug was not used as an indicator that mating took place with a specific male if the mating itself was not observed.

An advantage over designs in which males and females are randomly paired and mated is that if mate choice is possible, linkage disequilibrium between male attractiveness and female preferences [ 1, 6] may be maintained [ 51, 52].

If we accept that mate ornamentation can be a problematic measure of female preference, how could we advance our understanding of preferences in the wild when we are still restricted to use this preference measure?

Second, if males that have mated with the same female share one or more alleles, then it is not possible to detect all possible partners, and the evaluation of the minimum number of matings will be underestimated (yielding a conservative estimate).

We expected that mate number would match this distribution if number of mates were a random function of time and mating opportunity.

This is an animal that, if its mate dies, won't choose another mate.

The result of the cost of polygyny and the competition among males for women is that if polygynous mating exists in equilibrium, only men with adequate resources can afford it.