This is considered to be the most primitive habit in scale insects (Gullan and Kosztarab, 1997; Koteja, 2001), and similar brood care behavior also occurs in other early scale insects, for example, Margarodidae and Matsucoccidae (Koteja, 2001).
In describing what he called the "primitive habits" he is trying to alter, Hill said a Fordham player tried to steal a meal at a fast-food restaurant so he could pocket his $20 daily meal money.
Dental features are particularly well suited for this important role in classification because they reflect the broad radiation of mammalian feeding specializations from the primitive predaceous habit.
Considering the number and distribution of QTLs for plant morphology and pod constriction on the genetic map and the primitive growth habits and constriction depths that still exist in peanut cultivated species, it is unlikely that these traits were the main focus of human selection in the incipient stages of domestication.
Her special passion is mosses: their primitive bodies, stalwart habits and peculiar reproductive modes.
Dr. Chittka — who said that the bumblebee group, although highly social, was regarded as primitive in social habits — wondered why a single bumblebee, after returning to the nest, beat its wings excitedly and ran around crazily in circles.
It remains probable that the features they seem to share with theropod dinosaurs are simply primitive and related to carnivory, the general habit of archosaurs.
The Platypodinae have similar habits, but the tropical Brentidae (primitive weevils) usually attack deadwood.
Initially, the habit might seem nothing more than a primitive relic of our chimpanzee-like killing habits.
He rejects the habit of calling this kind of art "naïve," preferring the term "primitive modernism".
The predominant and perhaps primitive growth form in a wide range of monocots is sympodial growth, a creeping habit consisting of an axis that appears to be continuous but is actually made up of a succession of elements.
