Dr Wilson suspects that the liberal package of individualism and confrontation is the appropriate response to survival in a stable environment in which there is leisure for learning and reflection, and the consequences for a group's stability of such dissent are low.
It highlights one of the biggest problems facing the financial system right now: balancing the political need to loan out taxpayer funds and ignite the stalled economy with demands to shore up their balance sheets and insure survival during the riskiest lending environment in a generation.
His early work in South Africa and Namibia studying termite mounds, prodigious natural chimneys of earth out of all proportion in size to the small termites that build them, did not turn him into a Darwin skeptic, by any means, but it did prod him to realize how important the role of environment is to the survival and flourishing of a species.
You can often make valuable friends and most important, you can learn to adapt to their environment and increase your chances of survival.
Like living organisms they depend heavily on the interactions of their environment for nourishment, growth and even survival.
Human survival has been based on unrivaled adaptation to the environment, but plants and animals will and are inevitably succumbing to subtle changes in the climate.
The groups penchant for cost cutting, which analysts say was learned as a matter of survival amid Brazil's topsy-turvy operating environment of decades past, has caused some controversy.
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Many will succumb to the harsh survival-of-the-fittest-and-fleetest business environment, a lot will be acquired by giant corporations, and only a handful will achieve runaway success on a global scale.
In this highly competitive and sometimes harsh environment, marine species have had to develop strategies for survival, such as resistance to the toxicity, extreme temperature, hyper-salinity and pressure that characterize the deep seabed.
As children, that impulse is a powerful, instinctive survival mechanism for each of us: the more we understand about our environment, and the more quickly we understand it, the more likely we are to succeed as human beings.
Greed, survival of the fittest, ego and the exploitation of natural resources at the expense of the environment are things that the Arhuac cannot comprehend and suffer with patience.
"It's a war for survival, " Brown said, sitting in a Washington office filled with piles of reports and papers about the environment.
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