The problem with learning about the artist from the art is that artists sometimes reveal themselves to be troubled, troubling people, and bring to light their ugly traits, ideas, or even actions.
This was another Sub-Saharan trait: the idea that women are abundant.
The sprinkling of borrowed ideas has not necessarily been regarded as a negative trait: these ideas play a part in developing the flavour of the series and "don't necessarily deviate it from its originality".
Provocatively, he suggests that some epigenetic alterations may be passed on to future generations through sperm and eggs, allowing for "soft inheritance" of acquired traits, an idea mocked by generations of Darwinians (but not by Darwin himself).
If we are all starting with the same character traits and ideas of what is wrong and right, there is no room to discover new ideas or change the way people see things.
Metaphors, if they're any good, distill complexity not into simplicity but into clarity, bypassing the details of particular situations to find and represent their unifying universal traits and ideas.
Assume the best about your partner and project positive traits and ideas onto them.
Both share a common technological trait: a good idea doomed by poor execution.
One of the refreshing things about your book is that you discuss mutual mate selection for mental traits, and the idea that the female mind isn't just a consolation prize -- that intelligence, wittiness, creativity may have been sexually selected in women just as it was in men. A. Absolutely.
This previously unseen set of traits supports the idea that the ancestors of spiders lost their telsons before they developed the spinnerets that set the stage for their modern relatives' silk-spinning prowess.
That the activity profile within these cortical midline structures can explain certain personality traits supports the idea that these brain regions may be involved in general processes such as evaluating environmental and internal signals [3], [5].
