Sentence examples for paternal interest from inspiring English sources
But Johnson's paternal interest continued.
His scholarly interest in the school of art building and his paternal interest in the school and its students remained, and he would often return.
When the film went into production, John Ford, who had a paternal interest in Wayne, sent Hawks a letter saying: "Take care of my little Duke".
Once again Wayne's character had a paternal interest in Carey (as "The Abilene Kid") who eventually perishes from a gunshot wound.
His Buntu, by contrast, is a solemn taskmaster, at least until alcohol loosens his strictness and inspires a paternal interest in the hapless fellow he finds on his doorstep.
And now, with their paternal interest in the orphaned Abigail Hobbs, it feels like Hannibal is drawing Will into an oddball version of My Two Dads – "We are her fathers now," he tells Will.
The parental conflict hypothesis postulates that genomic imprinting in mammals evolved because of conflicting maternal and paternal interests in the allocation of maternal resources to the offspring with paternally epressed genes enhancing and maternally epressed genes limiting feto-placental growth.
That being said, the problem is somewhat simplified in haplodiploids; because there is no segregation in males, paternal interests are identical to patrigenic interests.
Paternal interests may be served by enhancing linear (particularly limb) growth, since this avoids exacerbating obstetric risks while driving greater lean mass accretion.
Paternal interests are theoretically served by maximizing fetal growth, and maternal interests by managing investment in current and future offspring, but whether paternal and maternal influences act on different components of overall size is unknown.
While fathers lose potential reproductive success if the offspring and mother die through obstructed labor, the penalty in lifetime reproductive success is much greater for the mother if she dies in childbirth, creating further tension between maternal and paternal interests in fetal growth.
