But Gould did not rule out sociobiological explanations for many aspects of animal behavior, and later wrote: "Sociobiologists have broadened their range of selective stories by invoking concepts of inclusive fitness and kin selection to solve (successfully I think) the vexatious problem of altruism previously the greatest stumbling block to a Darwinian theory of social behavior.
I took from Rieff a sense of its intractability, of how identity is rigidly formed around selective stories from the past.
"It does seem strange, it appears, that Russian-paid internet trolls who created bots were then able to put forward fake news, selective stories in a way that seemed targeted," he said.
When one FOI request was denied, Loussikian (2016b) ran a story giving a misleadingly selective account of the reasons for the denial.
In the highly selective "island story" version of the British past that prevailed until only a few decades ago, slavery was little more than the story of white abolitionists, and the colonial conquest of Africa acted mainly as an exotic backdrop to the exploits of men such as Livingstone and Stanley.
At Comedy Central, Drunk History has a whole team of researchers, and Waters has to be more selective about the stories they tell, building three-act episodes around themes and places.
But let's have a look at a chart the Times includes with the story:More selective schools clearly enjoy better graduation rates.
Here's a telling passage from this Sunday's Times Magazine story on "selective reduction" — the increasingly commonplace practice whereby twin pregnancies are "reduced" to single babies via abortion: Dr. Mark Evans, an obstetrician and geneticist, was among the first to reduce a pregnancy.
Finally, selective coding created a story by choosing a single category as a core category that could be related to all of the other categories.
Its focus on dramatic stories and selective "facts" is because human beings are tuned to pay more attention to those vivid stories.
