Since Fisher's initial conceptual model of the ' runaway ' process, Russell Lande and Peter O ' Donald have provided detailed mathematical proofs that define the circumstances under which runaway sexual selection can take place.

As formulated in Bateman's principle, females have a greater initial investment in producing offspring ( pregnancy in mammals or the production of the egg in birds and reptiles ), and this difference in initial investment creates differences in variance in expected reproductive success and bootstraps the sexual selection processes.

No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.

* November 24 – British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that species gradually evolve through natural selection ( it immediately sells out its initial print run ).

After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, the Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta after a merger in 1961 ) was awarded a CPFF ( cost-plus-fixed-fee ) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government.

In addition in 2006 there were more than 2, 000 Fijian soldiers in the British Army, and in 2004 the British defence ministry even sent recruiting teams to Fiji to do initial fitness and aptitude tests, cutting the costs of selection for poor Fijian villagers who could not afford to fly to London to sign up.

For SBS ( R ) selection, candidates are required to complete the following tests over the four-day initial selection course:

In World War II, he was involved in research on radar at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sonar near San Diego, and about November 1942 was recruited to the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, being involved in the initial selection of Los Alamos and in implosion research.

Olivier won the New York Film Critics award for Best Actor as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather after Stacey Keach in Fat City won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.

* Experiential selection -- Overlapping the initial growth and development of the brain, and extending throughout an individual's life, a continuous process of synaptic selection occurs within the diverse repertoires of neuronal groups.

The initial HRT selection course was held in June 1982 and consisted of three groups of thirty candidates each.

Upon completing its initial operator selection, the newly formed HRT began acquiring the equipment it believed necessary and upgrading training facilities at Quantico.

* Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina Charles Babbage Institute-interview is mainly concerned with the beginning of the Information Processing Techniques Office within ARPA: the initial goals, how the idea of an information processing program was initiated, the selection of the first director.

The initial three nominees were chosen by a selection committee, while the winner was determined by fan vote.

It is now entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials.

Marketing strategy includes all basic and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation, evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies and therefore contribute to the goals of the company and its marketing objectives.

It served as a flying candidates selection and initial training facility, and as a relief airport during World War II, latterly as the Polish Air Force Staff College from April 1944 to April 1946.

Woodward's management was criticised by many commentators and players for his initial squad selection, his coaching methods, his handling of the players and the media, his selections on tour-particularly for keeping faith with the England players he knew well-and for not allowing the test team any time to play together before the test series began.

Over a three-year period, an initial selection of 1. 5 million hours of material will be digitized and made directly available to researchers.

Admission is restricted to those students who have applied to an academy, failed initially to qualify, either academically or physically, but who have demonstrated an ability to qualify during the initial admission selection process:

Notwithstanding his political background, Nixon's initial selection as Liberal Party leader was largely unplanned.

The initial Board of Trustees consisted of Scott Bradner, John Curran, Kim Hubbard, Don Telage, Randy Bush, Raymundo Vega Aguilar, and Jon Postel ( IANA ) as an ex-officio member.

Their initial model consisted of three primary parts: sender, channel, and receiver.

The initial verse version by Doreen Valiente consisted of eight verses, the second of which was:

His initial implementation consisted of a pair of matrices, the first one generated signals in the manner of the Whirlwind control store, while the second matrix selected which row of signals ( the microprogram instruction word, as it were ) to invoke on the next cycle.

The initial personnel consisted of soldiers who had been sent to French academies of naval training.

The aircraft was refueled, and there was a crew change ; the new flight crew consisted of Captain Ralph G. Kevorkian, Captain / Check Airman Steven E. Snyder and Flight Engineer / Check Airman Richard G. Campbell ( all with more than 30 years employment at TWA ), and Flight Engineer Trainee Oliver Krick, who was starting the sixth leg of his initial operating experience training.

An additional temporary group consisted of only the initial DNS domain, < tt > arpa </ tt >, and was intended for transitional purposes toward the stabilization of the domain name system.

The initial staff consisted of Madrox's best friend and special enforcer, Guido Carosella ( Strong Guy ), and former teammate Rahne Sinclair ( Wolfsbane ).

The initial offering consisted of 49 titles.

; The initial line-up consisted of:

In 1977, the initial release of Art Garfunkel's Watermark album consisted exclusively of Jimmy Webb songs.

His initial success came from a barretter detector, which was followed by the electrolytic detector that consisted of a fine wire dipped in nitric acid, and for the next few years this later device would set the standard for sensitivity in radio reception.

" Its initial offering consisted of two models: the executive class Legend and the compact class Integra, available as a five-door and three-door hatchback.

The initial fleet consisted of Douglas DC-3 and DC-6 aircraft.

The initial Australian force consisted of ; three Royal Australian Navy ships, 500 special forces soldiers, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and No. 75 Squadron RAAF ( which included 14 F / A-18 Hornet fighters ).

The results of the adjustment consisted of corrections to initial station coordinates and coefficients of the gravitational field.

Throughout the second phase, budget expenditures consisted primarily of reinvestment in sectors given initial priority.

The initial council consisted entirely of nominated members, as no procedure existed at the time for holding elections.

The primary blocking consisted of a wall of cemented limestone blocks, plastered and stamped with the seal of the Royal Necropolis ( with the jackal and nine captives motif ).< ref name =" reeves p. 42 "> Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 42 </ ref > Weigall later stated that a fragment of Tutankhamun's seal had been recovered from this original blocking .< ref > Weigall, A. E. P. B., < cite > The Treasury of Ancient Egypt </ cite > ( Rand McNally and Company, 1912 ) p. 208 </ ref > However, his statement is not corroborated by any of the other reports dating from the initial discovery, leaving Weigall's claim open to question .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications, 1990 ) p. vi .</ ref >< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 136 </ ref >

Side four consisted of the final 15: 06 of " Mountain Jam " including some initial overlap with the end of side two.

The initial Simply Red line-up consisted of Mick Hucknall ( vocals ), David Fryman ( guitar ), Tony Bowers ( bass ), Fritz McIntyre ( keyboards and vocals ), Tim Kellett ( brass and live backing vocals

The initial shinkansen fleet delivered for use on Hikari and Kodama services on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen from 1 October 1964 consisted of 30 12-car sets formed of 1st-and 2nd-batch cars.

The initial batch ordered by JR Central consisted of 17 units, with the first 4 units delivered in time for introduction on three daily return Nozomi services from March 1999.