She had stark-white hair that was swept and sprayed into a blinding pompadour — Molly Ivins called it "hard hair" — and a switchblade sense of humor that was honed on the primitive male chauvinism she had grown up with.
"Songcatcher," like Ms. Greenwald's 1993 film, "The Ballad of Little Jo," is a modern feminist fable in which an intrepid female explorer successfully navigates through a primitive male-dominated environment.
By contrast, "Fifty Shades" depicts an almost primitive male-female relationship, with a powerful man seeming to control a young, impressionable woman.
The Old World deer include the 11 species of tropical Asian muntjacs (genus Muntiacus), the most primitive deer; males bear tusks and antlers on tall antler pedicles.
In this primitive condition males have long, sharp upper canines, called tusks, that are used for slashing and stabbing in territorial contests.
(Musk deer resemble primitive deer in that males are armed with tusks).
In form and function alone, there are obvious ways it qualifies as a "primitive mammal" (egg-laying, male mammary glands, weak thermoregulation), but there are just as many other features that make it a highly derived mammal (electroreceptive snout, venom glands).
In this report, we used a microarray approach to analyze genes exhibiting sexual dimorphism in the primitive streak of gastrulating male and female chicken embryos, several days before the appearance of gonadal primordia and sexual differentiation.
Here, we use chicken whole-genome Affymetrix microarrays to compare gene expression profiles of the primitive streak of individual male and female gastrulating chicken embryos at day 1 of incubation.
Males of most primitive soil-dwelling arthropod species place sperm drops on threads in damp locations or use threads or chemical products to guide females to externally placed spermatophores.
