Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is certainly always a likelihood. It would be a mistake to assume that the Geneva conference is going to be easy or brief. But it will be the first opportunity, if it materializes, for the Arab leaders and the Israeli leaders to meet together hi extensive negotiations to understand one another's approach, positions, attitudes, and to marshal the opinion of the world on the points in dispute...
...there might be. But, my dear brother, oppressed people are fighting everywhere, the world is on the move. Anyone who thinks he can replace one type of oppression with another does not understand the meaning of history or the soul of man. There is a God-ordained move toward freedom-spiritual, moral, physical and material. Man is going to be free...
...workers are three times more closely related to their sisters than to their brothers. Trivers and his associate, Hope Hare, then analyzed thousands of ants of 20 different species and confirmed the 3-to-1 female dominance?the strongest evidence so far that organisms act as if they understand the underlying genetics...
...photo of baboons disciplining their young. It looked so much like human parents dealing with their children, recalls Trivers, "that it was possible to imagine language as just so much froth on the ocean, and that there was something else underlying human discipline. It occurred to me that to understand human behavior, it would be very helpful to examine the behavior of other organisms...
...teachers, describes him as a brash, brilliant student who turned in papers with slashing attacks on well-known biologists, some of whom have not forgotten?or forgiven. Brashness is still part of Trivers' character. He derided an anthropologist (who, incidentally, admires his work) as too old to understand the implications of sociobiology. The anthropologist was then...