How to Use sociality in a Sentence

sociality

noun
  • One of the most interesting things is the finding that the vasopressin in the CSF correlates with sociality in the macaques and in autism with children.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 2 May 2018
  • This essence of a sociality is why Twitter appeals to black people, so much so that there’s a subset of the platform with its own proper noun (Black Twitter).
    Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • The social nature of animals is an extension of the sociality seen at lower rungs of the ladder, Picard said.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2021
  • Dunbar says that diet is a constraint on brain size, while sociality serves as a cause for brain development.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Dunbar says that diet is a constraint on brain size, while sociality serves as a cause for brain development.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • McQueen would seem to understand this acutely, lacing his scenes of Black sociality with both the high of rule-breaking and a somber recognition of what the consequences will be.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Most likely all of these reasons work together to drive us toward sociality, says Archie.
    Lydia Denworth, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2019
  • More evidence of the links between sociality and the microbiome continued to pile up.
    Lydia Denworth, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Part of his reason for this was the finding that the relationship between brain and sociality in primates didn’t look so clear-cut in bigger sample sizes with more controls.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
  • That suggests that the genetics of sociality in Dicty is complex.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 Nov. 2015
  • As with the gangs themselves, though, the gangland videos often sit on a blurry line between criminality and sociality.
    Ben Austen, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2013
  • But much of the cooperation on Earth, much of the sociality, is driven by relatedness.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Such sanitation behaviors are believed to have been a necessary step in the emergence of group living and sociality.
    Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2016
  • This parceling of jobs is the defining feature of the most extreme form of social society, called eusociality or true sociality.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2014
  • The visual clichés of damnation and salvation: the black-and-tan dive, the sociality of neighbors across the color line, hanging out on the stoop, marrying outside the race, or the model tenement occupied by a monochromatic family of the same race.
    Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • Feasting is a key component of this kind of sociality and cooperation.
    Charles Stanish, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
  • So then the neural circuitry for sociality must exist, and MDMA—through its ability to mimic serotonin—is unlocking that.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Cassidy specializes in wolves’ sociality, both within and between packs.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Chipmunk-like animals that lived among the dinos appear to have been social creatures, which suggests that sociality arose in mammals earlier than scientists thought.
    Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2020
  • O'Higgins is also interested in studying the origins of sociality by studying muscular anatomy and function in apes and humans.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The second continent is relationships, from the intimacies of love to sociality more broadly.
    Tim Lomas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
  • Currently, one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction; researchers say learning more about reptile sociality could be crucial for conservation.
    Hannah Thomasy, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Ken is the world authority on marmots, and he is credited with emphasizing the importance of their annual cycle, which varies by location, in explaining why marmot sociality varies.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Lastly, sociality and community are huge aspects of direct selling.
    George Elfond, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • The results suggest that the diversification and specialization of olfactory receptors were keys to the evolution of ant sociality.
    Natalie Angier, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
  • An elaboration upon the core logic of Hamilton's Rule in two seminal papers revolutionized our understanding of the evolution of sociality in the 1960s; Hamilton was proud of how widely cited his original papers were.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2010
  • Observations of other species have shown that sociality can increase an animal's ability to take advantage of another's hunting success.
    People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The octopuses' humanlike behavior in the study indicated that serotonin, the primary brain chemical that MDMA mimics, plays an ancient and fundamental role in sociality.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • This emotion also sustains our species’ sociality, Professor Cacioppo says.
    Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2017
  • However, these changes did coincide with increasing sociality among modern humans.
    Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018

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