selective, eidetic, selective forces human harvesting

Intense ivory poaching during the Mozambican Civil War resulted in the rapid evolution of tusklessness in female African elephants, researchers report in Science, shedding light on the selective forces human harvesting can exert on wild animal populations. https://fcld.ly/ubf1s9l

S&P puts Greece in selective default

eidetic (eye-DET-ik) adjective Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall. Etymology From German eidetisch, from Greek eidetikos, from eidos (form), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see) that is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, and wit Usage "He (Jorge Semprun) really does know hundreds of poems, he says. When he was young, he had a near eidetic memory, 'but these days my memory is more selective.'" — Helen Kaye; Memory and Commitment; Jerusalem Post (Israel); Apr 3, 1997. "The mother is desperate and the child, as it happens, has an eidetic memory and detailed information about the villain's illicit businesses." — Don D'Ammassa; The Mocking Program; Science Fiction Chronicle (Radford, Virginia); Jul 1, 2002.

eidetic[ei・det・ic]

• 発音記号[aidétik]

[形]ありありと目に浮かぶ；鮮明な

eidetic imagery 《心理学》直観像.

━━[名]直観像を見る人.

selective[se・lec・tive]

• 発音記号[siléktiv]

[形]

1 〈人が〉選択能力のある, 目の肥えた.

2 〈物が〉選択された, えり抜きの；選択できる, 義務的ではない；〈行為・影響などが〉選択的な；特定の人［障害］を対象にした；広範囲に及んでいない

selective bombing 選択爆撃.

3 〈受信機などが〉選択性のある, 分離性能のよい.

se・lec・tive・ly

[副]

se・lec・tive・ness

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