Sentence examples for random copulation from inspiring English sources
Thereafter the primal mating ritual devolved into the odd behavior atop the Palatine until by the 1820's the London post office was hiring extra sorters to handle the Valentine's Day traffic in pasteboard love notes, the blanched relic of our ancestors' jolly day of random copulation.
Contrary to the theoretical prediction, however, the simultaneously hermaphroditic earthworm Eisenia andrei, in which the fertilization pattern is thought to be random, exhibits greater ejaculate expenditure during copulation with a non-virgin mate than that with a virgin mate [ 25].
Then they were given words, some among them that implied love or copulation, and the control group got a random jumble of letters.
An ANCOVA with female ID as random factor revealed that 37% of the variation in copulation duration was explained by the mean tibia-patella length of the males in that small males mated longer than large males (F1,52 = 5.78, p = 0.021) while neither the trial number (1-6) (F5,57 = 0.31, p = 0.9) nor the pedipalp used (F1,52 = 0.03, p = 0.86) were relevant.
We also compared the relatedness (r) between pair members (between the female and her social mate, and her genetic mate when she engaged in EP copulations) to the expected distribution of values under random mating.
The genetic variation for mating speed, copulation duration, egg length, and egg width was estimated using a random effects variance component estimate.
Copulation equals population.
Sodomy, noncoital carnal copulation.
Copulation has not been observed.
Copulation follows a common pattern.
