In order to endow the replicator with the ability to become a subject of open-ended evolution by natural selection, it is necessary to link the change of phenotype to the change of the genotype, as the latter is the part which is conserved more or less intact through the generations, while the former is the one that 'controls' the survival of the entity in-between generations.
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas consist in a morphological and biologically heterogeneous group of tumours that have been proposed to represent an intermediate independent entity in between WDTC and ATC, and not only a subtype of WDTC (Sobrinho-Simões et al, 2002).
Putting this irrelevant corporate entity in between is intended to suggest there is another entity which the directors and managers are there, in some sense, to tame.
Michelle Martin: The Center for Inclusive Growth is interesting because it was established as its own entity, in between Mastercard and the Mastercard Foundation.
Governing the empire was "akin to running, in the modern day, an entity somewhere between five and ten times the size of the European Union".
Such a network thus provides a more comprehensively dynamic vision of microbial entities, allowing for modifications to an entity introduced by changes in the relationships between its parts, either by changes in the relationships of the whole to other entities, or by relations of its parts to other entities.
There are two basic ways of conceptualising a team: it is either a series of predetermined slots (the target-man, the holding midfielder, the right-back...) into which players are dropped, or it is a holistic entity, in which the relationships between component parts are as significant as the parts themselves.
Organisms, populations and even species can be FUEs, and over their own appropriate time scales are every bit as much "fundamental units of life" as are genes, while all sorts of entities in between can "evolve coherently for a certain time span".
Rah contends that MTV and the rap media - a substantial entity in America - "glorify" disputes between crews.
No longer a chaotic, fragmented political entity in a constant battle between the "establishment" and the radicals, united Republicans would come together for the good of the nation -- and their own 2016 prospects.
Bacon rejects this on the grounds that for him, terms are imposed on "present things" and there is nothing in common between an entity and a non-entity or between the past, present, and future.
