0 behaviour based on the characteristics or feelings that warn people or animals to protect themselves from difficulties or dangers: --
1 the ability of animals or people to protect themselves from danger or destruction: --
an instinct for self-preservation
This new quality is characterized by the ability of temporal self-maintenance and self-preservation.
Thus, while the scaling predicted by self-preservation theory may be correct, the underlying dimensional arguments have become even harder to justify.
Aside from some minor skirmishes, however, it did not as local rebels preferred clandestine activity, and self-preservation, to open confrontation.
The experiences of pain, joy, heat, cold, hunger, brilliant white, and others provide guidance essential for self-preservation.
A number of deponents saw his charitable countenance as a cynical attempt at self-preservation.
This became apparent in the discussion of a future scenario in which self-preservation through infinite organ replacement is feasible.
The difference is apparent when one applies self-preservation theory to the mixing layer.
In a flow dominated by vortex roll structures the implication is that self-preservation is inadequate even as the lowest-order approximation.