Dr. Miller dismisses the likelihood that manipulation plays a sustained role in animal displays.
We predicted that if maternal manipulation plays a role in M. genalis caste determination, investment in daughters should vary more than for sons.
Huh? There's no evidence that environmental restrictions played any role; meanwhile, even the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which strongly backs deregulation, has concluded that market manipulation played a major role.
As I've been pointing out for more than a year, there is powerful circumstantial evidence that market manipulation played a key role in that crisis.
While California politicians had long complained that market manipulation played a large role in the energy crisis, which cost consumers and utilities tens of billions of dollars, the documents provided what state officials called the first incriminating evidence of coordinated trading maneuvers intended to raise prices.
"This working group was created to identify whether fraud or manipulation played any role in the wholesale and retail markets as prices increased.
Our comprehension manipulation plays on the power of the bomb to create suspense, and make the car with the bomb an integral component of the scene.
The notice said, "Intimidation, harassment and manipulation play a big part in the work environment, and the 'groupthink' mentality often means that the bully gets away with this behavior".
The convenience manipulation played on present-bias preferences by adding a small and immediate additional cost to finding the unhealthy options (having to open the menu to the back), which in theory should make the relative costs and benefits of the healthy and unhealthy options more equal.
Developmental nutrition has been linked to reproductive physiology and caste behavior, so these differences may be a means by which female M. genalis actively manipulate some of their daughters, and this manipulation may play an important role in the social plasticity observed in this species.
