Bands of early humans that were particularly good at understanding and caring for each other out-competed less cooperative and loving bands, and thereby passed on the genes of empathy, bonding, friendship, altruism, romance, compassion, and kindness -- the genes, in a word, of love.
On Sunday her informed skull blasted her 13th World Cup goal, thereby passing the great Michelle Akers.
How could such seeming selflessness evolve, when it is exactly those individuals that are behaving altruistically that fail to breed and thereby pass their selfless genes along?
As the corpus luteum disappears, progesterone levels fall, and the uterine lining is shed through the process of menstruation, thereby passing the unfertilized egg from the body.
During the reproduction of the organism, the genes also replicate and thereby pass on the instructions for various characteristics to the next generation.
As it stands, only full members of the European Tour are eligible to qualify for the biennial event; the matter came into focus this year as Paul Casey refused to join, thereby passing up the opportunity to appear at Hazeltine.
According to that ruling, assigning points to applicants by skin colour (as Michigan's undergraduate college had done, thereby passing over better-qualified white applicants) is forbidden under the constitution.
And Adrienne Alix, the president of Wikimedia France, is similarly unconvinced, saying that although Houellebecq's use of the Wikipedia passages may not have been entirely above-board, it does not follow that his whole book thereby passes into a Creative Commons license.
In the end it was perhaps all for the best, as England lost a low-scoring and ultimately gripping fifth one-day international by five runs at the Adelaide Oval, thereby passing up on the chance of a little dead-rubber gloss at the end of a series that was lost a week ago in Sydney.
Lee claimed that AIM can reduce the cost of trading to 1/40th, thereby passing on savings to users.
In meerkat groups, one female is generally in charge, giving birth to most of the pups and thereby passing the most genes on to the next generation.
