In different ways, both made the novel argument that the evolutionary pressures fostering intelligence in animals were not the primal demands of subsistence but the more abstract ones of living within a complex social hierarchy.
For quite some time, growing income inequality did not slow consumption growth; indeed, "trickle-down consumption" pressures fostered more consumer spending, more debt, more bankruptcy and more financial stress among middle and lower income households.
"There was pressure," Foster says, "from what my fans would want to hear next.
Yet if the ethos of efficiency and productivity risks prioritising the health of the economy over the happiness of humans, it is also true that the sense of pressure it fosters is not much good for business, either.
The two immediate benefits of overlap are: (1) that overlapping sequences evolve under a pressure to foster replicative compression thereby increasing the rate of DNA or RNA synthesis for a fixed number of genes, and/or (2) for regulatory compression, reducing the independent regulatory overheads on different genes.
Recently, an editorial in The Global Times, a state-run Chinese newspaper, said China could pressure Japan by "fostering forces in Okinawa that seek the restoration of the independence of the Ryukyu chain".
The animal models discussed earlier indicate that too much apoptosis compromises healthy or premalignant tissues by increasing proliferative pressure and clonal selection fostering outgrowth of malignant clones.
And weak economic growth such as characterizes most of the world today inevitably fosters pressure for protectionism.
The embarrassment and pressure have apparently fostered a siege mentality, prompting Erdogan to launch a misguided campaign against freedom of expression in his country.
It will imply, on one hand, an increase in consumption levels, and, on the other hand, an increasing pressure on resource utilization thereby fostering a trend toward more efficiency in all sectors of the logistics chains.
