What is "illustrates"

Usage examples of "illustrates".

The whole later history of the Jews illustrates as well their strong feelings of humanity to their brethren, as their hostility to the rest of mankind.

Lardner, in his first and second volumes of Jewish and Christian testimonies, collects and illustrates those of Pliny the younger, of Tacitus, of Galen, of Marcus Antoninus, and perhaps of Epictetus, (for it is doubtful whether that philosopher means to speak of the Christians.

Note: A newly discovered fragment of Eunapius, whom Zosimus probably transcribed, illustrates this transaction.

The poet or philosopher illustrates his age and country by the efforts of a single mind.

The outcome clearly illustrates how environments can affect economy, technology, political organization, and fighting skills within a short time.

Thus, pizarro's capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans' colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans' colonizing Europe.

This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit.

In fact, it illustrates an enormous subject of great importance: human diseases of animal origins.

The history of writing illustrates strikingly the similar ways in which geography and ecology influenced the spread of human inventions.

Though seemingly remote from human sexuality, shorebird sexuality is instructive because it illustrates the main message of this book: a species' sexuality is molded by other aspects of the species' biology.

It illustrates the failure of strictly physiological explanations and the importance of evolutionary reasoning for understanding human sexuality.

Male lactation beautifully illustrates all the main themes in the evolution of sexuality: evolutionary conflicts between males and females, the importance of confidence in paternity or maternity, differences in reproductive investment between the sexes, and a species' commitment to its biological inheritance.

Art's story illustrates the power of what zoologists term a signal: a cue that can be recognized very quickly and that may be insignificant in itself, but which has come to denote a significant and complex set of biological attributes, such as sex, age, aggression, or relationship.

The episode with which I began this chapter illustrates that our responses to those signals can be as specific and dramatic as a gull chick's response to the red spot on its parent's bill.

Penis evolution evidently illustrates the operation of runaway selection just as Fisher postulated.