Sentence examples for lethal aggression from inspiring English sources

A major new study of chimp warfare finds that lethal aggression can be evolutionarily beneficial, rewarding the winners with food, mates, and the opportunity to pass along their genes.

But a major new study of warfare in chimpanzees finds that lethal aggression can be evolutionarily beneficial in that species, rewarding the winners with food, mates, and the opportunity to pass along their genes.

They tabulated the causes of 148 cases of lethal aggression, and found that two thirds originated from within-group conflicts.

In the other 20 MFB societies only around 15% of deaths by lethal aggression could possibly fit the definition of war.

most incidents of lethal aggression among MFBS may be classified as homicides, a few others as feuds, and a minority as war.

The older of two Nazca booby hatchlings unconditionally attacks and ejects the younger from the nest within days of hatching, while blue-footed booby neonates lack lethal aggression.

The unusual behavioral suite of male kin bonding and lethal territorial aggression may look as if it has been inherited with little change.

For example, when Jane Goodall reported seeing chimpanzee hunting and lethal intergroup aggression, the scientific image of chimpanzees had to be significantly revised (Goodall 1986).

Similarly, among chimpanzee societies, adult males are more than 6 times more likely to be the victims of lethal intergroup aggression than females (Wrangham et al. 2006).

The greater access a person has to lethal means of aggression, like guns, the greater the risk of a more extensive and devastating act.

But what united every survivor who spoke out today about yesterday's pre-dawn assault by Israeli commandos on the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla to Gaza, was a sense of deep shock at the speed, aggression and lethal force of the Israeli response to what they reiterated was nothing more than a humanitarian aid effort.