"What really struck me was how the skulls have such a great blend of traits from alligators and caimans," Hastings says.
A popular theory during Mendel's time was the concept of blending inheritance: the idea that individuals inherit a smooth blend of traits from their parents.
SUCCESSFUL hands-on restorers of the grittiest old work boats tend to possess a blend of seemingly paradoxical traits.
In racing, as in many other horse sports, that's a highly prized blend of traits and characteristics.
Archaeopteryx itself is a blend of saurian and avian traits.
They've got the blend of traits required of great camp leaders: they are mature enough to run something, but deep down they're immature enough to get excited by the things that excite kids.
Ozarcus's unexpected blend of traits indicates that sharks and their kin have evolved substantially since they first appeared.
After all, great cooking involves a blend of curiosity, determination and style, all traits she possesses.
For Lewis, the House is a way of "connecting dots" – joining people to their past, understanding how identity is a blend of culture, geography and genealogy, a collision of unique traits and common bonds.
Presidents are human, too, a blend of varying degrees of idealism, generosity, empathy, ambition, ego, vanity, jealousy and anger, but they generally hide their unvarnished traits behind an official veneer.
A blend of aglianico and piedirosso.
