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...synchronize. In a state of nature, this is a very good idea. It's not in a tribe's or community's interests for one ovulating female to monopolize the reproductive attention of too many males. Better to have all the females become fertile at once and allow the fittest potential mates to compete with one another for them...
...synchronize. In a state of nature, this is a very good idea. It's not in a tribe's or community's interests for one ovulating female to monopolize the reproductive attention of too many males. Better to have all the females become fertile at once and allow the fittest potential mates to compete with one another for them...
...fiesta” that are borrowed from other languages—illustrate that English words (and the ideas behind them) don’t automatically replace foreign ones (and the ideas behind them). On the contrary, language encourages a linguistic survival-of-the-fittest. If a foreign idea is so nuanced as to not have an English translation, we English speakers will often adopt the non-English word as our own. Consider the Chinese word “Zen.” While Americans may not understand its historical origin or its literal denotation, most can and do go ahead...
...neighborhood - Savile Row tailors pay an average of $255 per square foot, while rents on nearby Regent Street are around $820 per square foot. Although the tailors will continue to receive substantial discounts, their rents will almost certainly continue to creep upward. "It will remain survival of the fittest," Rowland says...
That's a lucky thing because in the globalized manufacturing jungle, it's not survival just of the fittest but also of the nimblest. When Fung took the firm public in the early 1970s--the first Chinese trading company to list on a stock market--he displayed his knack for timing. Unencumbered by generations of cousins and uncles, Fung was able to take advantage of the dawn of the roaring Asian tigers, moving his manufacturing operations to Taiwan and South Korea, then Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, networking with Asia's entrepreneurial Chinese diaspora. Today about half the firm...