Similarly, common alleles may be common due to superior fitness or to genetic drift.
In tribes divided into clans, it is common to attribute superior status to a certain clan or even to scale them in hierarchic order.
On the one hand, it's certainly true that one reason results like these make newspaper headlines is that they allow northerners and westerners (especially westerners; that's where interracial marriage is most common) to feel superior about themselves, and look down on ignorant hicks.
AGEs have a predictive value for the development of microvascular complications, which was found to be superior to other common risk predictors, such as diabetes duration and HbA1c.
The superior conjunctiva is shielded by the brow and may therefore receive less sunlight exposure than the inferior conjunctiva; this could explain why inferior conjunctivochalasis is generally more common than superior conjunctivochalasis.
Therefore, the state of nature is, according to Locke's "Second Treatise," a "state of peace, good will, mutual assistance and preservation". In such a world, Locke said, you would find "[m]en living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them". Accordingly, a limited government is all that's needed to keep the peace.
The adversaries of the Constitution seem to have lost sight of the people altogether in their reasonings on this subject; and to have viewed these different establishments, not only as mutual rivals and enemies, but as uncontrouled by any common superior in their efforts to usurp the authorities of each other.
Until after the Thirty Years' War, the territories of Brandenburg-Prussia were politically independent from each other, connected only by the common feudal superior.
Consistent with the results in Figure 6, this investigation leads to the conclusion that the SWATCH strategy should be initiated within 2 years postinfection to achieve responses superior to common clinical approaches (SVF).
Fifteen months before his final ambush, when Sergeant Kreutzer had an outburst in which he threatened to kill soldiers, and it became common knowledge, his superiors sent him to a military social worker.
Should evolution proceed along a single pathway when multiple are available and yet the fitness of the phenotype from the common path is superior, then other than the pleasure of discovery there is no dilemma to solve.
