1, that sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted
2, Hardy’s weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones
3,Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs
Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic” novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness
4, as she put it in The Common Reader, “it is safe to say that not a si