Sentence examples for bodily traits from inspiring English sources
The Icelandic company deCODE Genetics announced yesterday that it is now offering a service called deCODEme, which will assess a person's genome for risk of common diseases, bodily traits like hair and eye color, and ancestral origins.
As predicted, the researchers found that facial traits are much more variable than other bodily traits, such as the length of the hand, and that facial traits are independent of other facial traits, unlike most body measures.
In the new novel, a lengthy exercise in futuristic science fiction, the hero, named Daniel, involves himself in the founding stages of a worldwide cult, Elohimism, that delivers its adherents into practical immortality, achieved through replacement of the deceased individual by a DNA-derived duplicate possessed of not only the same bodily traits but the same memories.
"It's these bodily traits that normally disgust us or make us feel gross," she says.
They can never be perfect, however, for the same six evolutionary reasons that other bodily traits remain vulnerable to disease.
An evolutionary approach focuses on how bodily mechanisms evolved, and how traits shared by most members of the species leave them vulnerable to a disease.
The structural equation modeling in data from all 1654 twins showed that h estimates ranged from 31%95%5% CI: 9.4%, 50.5%) for the time spent in sedentary behavior to 47.4% (95% CI: 28.9%, 53.8%) for PAEE under the ACE model and reached significance for all traits except for bodily movements as reflected by acceleration of the trunk (95% CI: 0.0%, 44.2%).
Such physicality is, not incidentally, a Koussevitzky trait: the old man advocated "bodily freedom" in performance.
By using the term adaptation for the evolutionary process and adaptive trait for the product (the bodily part or function), the two senses of the word may be distinguished.
Whatever their situation, whether they live in carefully distressed boho townhouses in Holland Park, or iron-topped wooden shacks in the slums of Nairobi, homeopathy's customers all share one common trait: they're putting their bodily ailments in the hands of something that's been repeatedly proved as ineffective.
"The Contribution of Trait Negative Affect and Stress to Recall for Bodily States". Physiology & Behavior 167 (December 2016): 274-281.
