In a world of investors, there is huge variation in the bets people make — from large cap stocks, small cap stocks, emerging markets, commodities, gold, real estate, fine art, the list goes on.
With infectious enthusiasm and excellent examples, Wilson takes the reader through the world of variation, selection, adaptation, interaction effects of genes and the environment, and a host of related concepts.
In a world of clones, there would not be enough variation for populations to adapt.
lncRNAs represent a largely unexplored world of genetic/epigenetic variation and may provide mechanistic insight into transcriptional regulation.
Well, there are a lot of students in the world, and a good deal of variation in their attitudes and behaviour.
The tag line was "Probably the Pete Best lager in the world", a variation of Carlsberg's well known slogan.
The ED ranks among the most extreme deserts in the world (the coefficient of variation of rainfall reaches 200%, mean annual precipitation <30 mm [5], [22]).
Where Lawrence is stolid and respectable, Ramsey — a celebrity in the rarefied world of snooker (a British variation of billiards) — is raffish and impulsive.
It could have left already armed with the necessary adaptations, or more technically, exaptations (i.e., dsDNA, cell walls, etc)., to contend with a brave new world of intense UV radiation, drastic variations in temperature, salinity, and pH, and surrounded by a potential windfall of unused resources if, and that's a big if, life were capable of exploiting them.
Such a requirement is natural to enable a stable interpretation of objects in the world under variations of the orientation of the object relative to the observer, to enable invariance under variations of the viewing direction.
