Weight, by their account, is, like race or sex or bone structure, a biological trait over which individuals have no or, in the case of fat, very limited control.
The results of the trial were something of a jumble until Novartis scientists noticed that patients who had a particular, undisclosed biological trait improved far more than others.
One opens the book with hopes for insight into the historical roots of today's controversies about classifying human beings — whether IQ tests really measure a biological trait, for instance, or whether it makes sense to use race or ethnicity in medicine.
The evolutionary psychologist has a quick response to this: To say that a biological trait evolves for a purpose doesn't mean that it always functions, in the here and now, for that purpose.
Weight, by their account, is, like race or sex or bone structure, a biological trait over which individuals have no — or, in the case of fat, very limited — control.
This irrepressible biological trait (combined with cheap Asian labor and lax environmental standards) has allowed Pangasius to undercut Italian rainbow trout farmers and Greek branzino farmers and has even presaged a re-entry into the American market with the mysterious new name "swai" — now the ninth most consumed fish in America.
Decreased parasympathetic modulations and accentuated sympathetic activity might be a biological trait in patients with RCVS.
The universality of a biological trait in a species is fragile.
The proper function of a biological trait whether structural, behavioral, etc.—is not whatever that trait in fact does, since it might very well malfunction; the proper function of a biological trait is what that biological trait should or ought to do in light of its selection history.
The occurrence of a biological trait in all and only the members of a species is an empirical possibility.
These findings suggested that the autonomic dysfunction is not simply an accompanying phenomenon during the diseased stage but a biological trait marker in patients with RCVS.
