Word: behavior
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Harvard began with five interfaculty initiatives: ethics and the professions; children; environmental studies; mind, brain and behavior; and health policy...
Harvard began with five interfaculty initiatives on ethics and the professions; children; environmental studies; mind, brain and behavior; and health policy...
...year-old Fatima, who declined to provide Fifteen Minutes with her last name saying, "I don't really know how to spell it," also notes the anti-social behavior of the room's occupants. After sitting there for a few days, she still has not spoken to any college students...
Even if some animals do engage in homosexual activity purely for pleasure, their behavior still serves as an incomplete model--and an incomplete explanation--for human behavior. "In our society homosexuality means a principal or exclusive orientation," says psychology professor Frans de Waal of the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta. "Among animals it's just nonreproductive sexual behavior...
...with more than 1 million species, that may not seem like much. Animals, however, can be surprisingly prim about when and under whose prying eye they engage in sexual activity; as few as 2,000 species have thus been observed closely enough to reveal their full range of coupling behavior. Within such a small sampling, 450 represents more than...