Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guarantee success. It is a problem that has been extant for 29 years or more-some say thousands of years. But I think it is a good first step and I think that anyone who would only go with a guarantee of success would probably not likely take the first step toward peace...
...position has been that at the time we meet we should have demonstrable success in negotiating a significant agreement between our two countries. And my position has been that perhaps the meeting would let us become acquainted and that we ourselves might alleviate some of the disagreements that remain among the negotiators. It is an honest difference of approach, but we are not desperate for an early meeting. I would hope that before too many months go by we will have an ability to meet both my standards for the meeting...
...have genetic interests that emerge as manipulation. One of Trivers' examples: a parent may be overprotective in order to keep a grown child at home helping with the other offspring?something that promotes the self-interest of the parents and the younger kids but diminishes the chances of reproductive success for the older child. Says Trivers: "Humans are caught in an intense co-evolutionary struggle with their closest relatives. Parents, siblings and offspring are our allies as well as our opponents...
...goes on to say there is "little evidence" of its truth: culture moves too fast, and even the 2,000-year-old castes of India are not genetically different in any measurable way. Still, Wilson believes there is a "loose correlation of some of the genetically determined traits with success." Such beliefs worry many readers, so Wilson often devotes himself to reassuring audiences that sociobiology is not threatening. He says, for example, that only about 10% to 15% of human social behavior is genetically based. (After this less-than-scientific guess, Sahlins replied with some dry academic mockery that human...
...male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...