10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «PEACOCK'S TAIL»
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Eyes on the Peacock's
Tail
stories from "IQ"! umber the bamaan All Free a folktale from Gujarat Mazzoo
Mazzoo a folktale from Kashmir Wrestling Mania a folktale from Punjab Sweet
and Salty a folktale from Andhra Pradesh Eyes on the Peacock's Tail a folktale
from ...
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from ...
The peacock's tail came to pose an even greater threat to his peace of mind: 'The
sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!' (
Darwin, F. 1887. ii. p. 296). For a Darwinian, that splendid tail has a sting in it.
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
Such features seem to defy the adaptionist programme, and even Darwin once
remarked: 'The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it makes
me sick!' (quoted in Cronin, 1991, p. 113). Nor is the peacock's tail an exception:
...
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The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, ...
The peacock's brightly-colored feathers are said to signify the Gentiles who have
been adorned by Christ with “the grace and splendor of many virtuesla The
careful and detailed rendering of the “eyes” of the peacock's tail in many of the ...
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Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of ...
Abhinavagupta uses the example of a peacock's tail: ifI take a walk in a park and
see a peacock with his beautiful, shining tail, I see the tail in all its grand color,
without mentally separating the individual colors from one another. And it is only
...
Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus, 2011
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Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary ...
The Peacock's Tail: Darwin's Design Dilemma On April 3, 1860, Charles Darwin
wrote to his botanist friend Asa Gray, “The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail,
whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!” (Darwin, 1860). The peacock's impractical
...
Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach, 2012
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The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture
Darwin, however, did not look on such discussions as fondly as Severn
supposed. Privately, he confided, "The sight of a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze
at it, makes me sick!"15 As the scholar Helena Cronin has written, the peacock's
tail was, ...
Barbara Jean Larson, Fae Brauer, 2009
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in ...
Perhaps the brain evolved primarily to aid in reproduction rather than survival. As
Miller explains, "The human mind and the peacock's tail may serve similar
biological functions. . . . The peacock's tail evolved because peahens preferred
larger, ...
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A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk ...
A peacock's tail erect and hound with a wreath Proper. LOVELL. 'Sr gregory
Lovell' MS Philpot's Visitations, Norf. * A boar's head couped and erect Argent
armed Or out of the mouth a peacock's tail Proper. TYRREL, TYRRELL, of
Gipping.
Joan Corder, John Blatchly, 1998
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Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind
The abiding analogy here is to something like the phenomenon of the peacock's
tail. The peacock develops a large and wondrous tail which peahens find
attractive. Why? Because if Mr Peacock can invest all the resources it takes to
grow ...
Greg Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin, 2014
10 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «PEACOCK'S TAIL»
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peacock's tail nel contesto delle seguenti notizie.
On the hunt for tuna
The rods were set in a fan like a peacock's tail from the aft of the boat, each with differing lengths of line trailing so they wouldn't get tangled. «Statesman Journal, lug 15»
The Do's and Dont's of Getting a Hollywood Smile
When delving deeper into the reasons behind why this was, it was concluded that teeth are viewed as the human equivalent of a peacock's tail ... «Yahoo News, lug 15»
Velociraptor cousin had flamboyant wings, tiny arms
It may have has ancestors capable of flight, and maintained its wings solely for display purposes like a peacock's tail. “When you look at this ... «RedOrbit, lug 15»
Bricks and blooms: Eye-popping Lego sculptures arrive at arboretum
The finished peacock's tail is nearly 7 feet wide. cComments. Got something to say? Start the conversation and be the first to comment. «Chicago Tribune, lug 15»
Gaziano & Girling: new shoes on the block
... daubing of complementary and even contrasting polish atop more traditional colours, to create, well, a peacock's tail-feather of dazzling hues. «Telegraph.co.uk, lug 15»
Recycled canoes form public art along Huron River
It's intended to "call to mind the sun on the horizon, a woman's hand held fan, a Native American headdress or the spread of a peacock's tail ... «MLive.com, giu 15»
Rose float to fete Jewel City landmarks
The city's logo will be blended into the peacock's tail feathers. At the back end of the entry will be the façade of the Larry Zarian Transportation ... «Glendale News Press, giu 15»
How to tell if he'll be a good father? It's all in his song
The assumption is that a male's song acts as a signal of his quality; in this sense birdsong acts in the same way as a peacock's tail or the ability ... «BMC Blogs Network, giu 15»
Finding balance and a slower pace through tai chi
Then we repeatedly stepped through the movements of Grasping the Sparrow's Tail, which had been the Peacock's Tail in the other class, but I ... «Lincoln Journal Star, giu 15»
Oz stylewatch: the coat that's so great, you won't need to wear …
A weighty mixture of fur and silk, the metres-long creation dragged behind her like a peacock's tail as she clutched it coyly to her breast, fully ... «The Guardian, giu 15»
