To understand selection as a cause of evolutionary change, one must recognize the slight individual variation, "see" the variation being selected, and then see it being naturally accumulated in successive generations.
This theoretical shift enabled Darwin to bracket his earlier efforts to develop a causal theory of life, and focus instead on the means by which the dynamic force of population was controlled, and determine how this control on population worked out in company with the phenomenon of slight individual variation and changing conditions of life to produce a gradual change of form and function.
The small RV-value (0.06) indicates slight individual variations which mean homogeneity in the group of assessments.
The infection method in this study could not offer the same bacterial dose each individual fish, resulting in slight individual differences in degree of infection and disease progression.
The contract is some good news for the opera, which says it has also seen a slight increase in individual donations over last year, despite its dark house.
The respondents reflect the Dutch population in terms of gender, civil status, and urbanity, with the exception of a slight underrepresentation of individuals in the age group between 18 and 24 years (Bijl et al. 1998a, b).
Hence, an age-dependent increase of BDM and OM utilisation were expected, but we found a slight decrease for individuals aged 80 years and older compared to those aged 70 79 years.
For sex bias, there is a slight excess of individuals outside the uncorrected 95% range (PACES: 8.5%; nPACES: 7.9%), although the proportions with positive (favouring male) and negative (favouring female) bias are approximately the same, indicating no overall bias in favour of one sex or the other (and it should be remembered that the majority of examiners are male).
Peri-stimulus analysis of the responses also showed that increasingly stronger EPSPs evoke postsynaptic spikes with shorter latency resulting in a slight bending of the individual spike events (tick marks moving to the left) in the peri-stimulus scatter plots (Fig. 3A1 A4).
Due to variance in the manual fabrication process, these parameters may have a slight tolerance for each individual probe.
