Sentence examples for present-day sexual from inspiring English sources

If Rohmer's contemporary films evoked 18th-century novels and plays, his period pieces echoed present-day sexual relationships.

If present-day sexual selection is stronger in dichromatic birds, our results suggest that its impact on sex-linked genomic variation is offset by other processes that lead to proportionately lower Z-linked variation in monochromatic species.

Conversely, it is possible that present-day sexual selection -- as measured by the variance in male reproductive success -- is stronger in the set of monochromatic taxa we have examined, potentially reflecting the importance of song, behavior and other non-plumage associated traits as targets of sexual selection.

Yes, there are trains and choppers, knives and guns, dead bodies and stolen kisses and all the other traditional 007 accoutrements, updated ever so slightly to conform to present-day sexual mores, geopolitical confusions and technological fantasies.

A simple interpretation of this pattern is that the present-day intensity of sexual selection is lower in the dichromatic species we have studied relative to monochromatic species.

Luker traces the debate about sex education back to its invention by the "social hygienists" of the Progressive era, but she locates the source of present-day hostilities in the sexual revolution of the 1960's, which she calls as "disorienting and historically important" as the French, American and Russian Revolutions.

These letters resonate with the present-day story in their exploration of sisterhood and sexual love.

However, this assumption is likely to be very unrealistic if vegetative reproduction is much more frequent than sexual reproduction, like it is in present-day protists, and if the mobility of the cells is low.

What Karasek found seemed to echo present-day issues on campus: students disappointed with administrative responses to sexual assault cases; allegations of Title IX failures; activists reminding readers that "the way a woman dresses or acts does not 'cause' rape"; faculty saying they'd received no training in how to respond to sexual violence.

In fact, recent genetic studies on Iberoamerican populations [ 56- 58] have also detected considerable sexual asymmetry, showing that the European male contribution to their present-day genetic pools is significantly greater than the female, as happens in the Canary Islands.

Speciation driven by the joint action of natural and sexual selection may indeed be unlikely if both processes are completely decoupled, as most present-day models tend to assume.