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And, interestingly, three cancers—stomach, lung, and colon cancer—were also seen more frequently in mates of patients, indicating a shared environmental risk factor.
This seems perverse—it excludes half the population as potential mates without gaining the benefits of specialization in sexual biology.
Williams, who had played on landmark sessions with reedmen Eric Dolphy and Jacky McLean, accented the backbeat in the drums and played just a little above everyone else, creating a polyrhythmic, vaguely African template for his band mates.
Furthermore, women need to realize that, because selection favored males who had many mates, men tend to read signals of acceptance into a woman's actions even when no such signals are intended.
Most importantly, the rhesus monkeys developed peacemaking skills on a par with those of their more tolerant group mates.