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  • adjective Not behavioral.

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non- +‎ behavioral

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Examples

  • All the traits that are traditionally considered "nonbehavioral" (morphology, physiology, life history) can evolve to be phenotypically plastic, in addition to behaviors that have always been known to be sensitive to context.

    David Sloan Wilson: Evolution and War: Back to Basics 2009

  • Despite General Colin Powell's argument in 1993 that skin color is a "benign, nonbehavioral characteristic," it's a good bet that in 1948 when President Truman integrated the armed forces that many whites didn't see it that way.

    Obama's Prop. 8? Adam Serwer 2010

  • Membership in set B is defined in nonbehavioral terms.

    Has Mary Koss been “discredited”? 2005

  • Membership in set B is defined in nonbehavioral terms.

    Has Mary Koss been “discredited”? 2005

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