Their modifiability and the readiness with which they interbreed are two of the determining causes of their selection for domestication.
Roger, I beseech you to have mercy upon me, and leave off that marching up and down,--it gets on my nerves!
He spoke in a semi-whisper which thrilled through the room.
The notion involves not simply the idea of bare collision and rebound, but something much more profound, namely, the internal modifiability of the colliding agents.
The elder men, in fact, had many of them lost that elasticity and modifiability of intellect which is necessary for the reception of new and revolutionary fundamental concepts.
There appears indeed to be hardly any limit to the almost infinite plasticity and modifiability of domestic animals.
Lastly, if this theory of indefinite modifiability be sound, what meaning can be attached to the term language, and what definition can be given of it so as to distinguish a language from a dialect?
In nerve tissue, impressibility, conductivity and modifiability are developed to a marked degree.
This trait of nerve modifiability is one factor which accounts for greater retentive power in some persons than in others.
The nervous system, however, possesses the power of modifiability to a marked degree, even a single impression sufficing to make striking modification.
The facts which have been presented thus far become more significant when the indices of modifiability for the learning and the re-learning processes are compared.
Early in my investigation of the behavior of the dancer I conceived the idea of determining the relation of modifiability of behavior (docility) to age.
From all considerations that have been mentioned thus far the reader would be justified in concluding that I made a mistake in selecting the ten-test method for my study of the modifiability of the behavior of the dancer.
We need only turn to the various tables of results to discover that inmodifiability of behavior, in memory, in re-learning, not to mention other aspects of docility, dancers of the same sex and age differed strikingly.
Further discussion of the index of modifiability may be postponed until the several indices which serve as measures of the efficiency of different methods of training have been presented in the next chapter.
But the extreme modifiability of organic matter by chemical agencies is the chief cause of that active molecular rearrangement which organisms, and especially animal organisms, display.
Is there any relation between the degree of mental modifiability which remains in adult life, and the character of the mental evolution in respect of mass, complexity, and rapidity?
The histories of the most civilized nations show us that in their earlier times, the modifiability of ideas and habits was less than it is at present.
The plasticity of neurone groups seems to vary in two respects--as to modifiability and as to power to hold modifications.
Both of them really aimed at an improvement of social conditions on a scientific method; and both justified their hopes by the characteristic belief in the indefinite modifiability of human nature by external circumstances.
The indefinite modifiability of character was the ground upon which the Utilitarians based their hopes of progress; and it was connected in their minds with the doctrine of which his essay upon education is a continuous application.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modifiability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
