Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'

There is too little courtship in the world.

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I would like to do more independent films.

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.

Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I'm just always grateful when I meet fans.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.