Quotes About Selection

As one researcher noted, "it seems likely that males suffer higher mortality than do females because in the past they have enjoyed higher potential reproductive success, and this has selected for traits that are positively associated with high reproductive success but at a cost of decreased survival" (Trivers, 1985, p. 314).

Competition among men and selection by women of men high in status and resources are ultimately responsible for the evolution in males of risk-taking traits that lead to successful mating at the expense of a long life.

As men mature into their thirties and forties, the ratio between the sexes typically tilts in their favor, if they have survived the risks and attained positions of reasonable status. They have a wider pool of potential women to choose from, and they enjoy a higher value on the mating market than they did in their youth. They are better able to attract multiple mates, whether through casual sex, extramarital sex, serial marriage, or polygyny.

To paraphrase the evolutionary anthropologist Sarah Hrdy, "Men are one long breeding experiment run by women.

Women's heavier reproductive investment in producing their offspring means they are by far the more valuable reproductive resource. As a general rule, the more valuable the resource, the more people compete for access to it. Men must compete with each other for sexual access to women. Women can afford to be choosy since they are in greater demand when it comes to sex.

Quienes en nuestro pasado evolutivo no consiguieron emparejarse de forma adecuada no se convirtieron en nuestros antepasados.

permanecer con un mal compañero no contribuye a que una persona transmita sus genes con éxito. Descendemos de quienes supieron cuándo cortar la relación.

A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

We've gotten ourselves a mortgage broker named Marcus Paisley, a man we obviously chose for his name. Hugh spoke to him yesterday morning and we spent the rest of the day imagining future calls. "I'm starting to see a pattern here, Paisley, and I don't like it.

only carry about a hundred

Hungry, tired, eyes sore, dying to pee, I would sit and take in every conceivable kind of movie. The only criterion for being shown at Canadian Images was that a movie be Canadian. It

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.

I'm really grateful for the fact that I have full artistic control over my career. I can choose what film or TV projects I'm interested in doing.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

One writes such a story not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mould is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.

There are too many books in the world.

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The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

Dar, uite, eu, dintre toate na?iunile, aleg imagi-na?iunea.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.