Rather, it is likely that rat and monkey recognition strategies sit along a continuum of shape-processing complexity, where extraction of edges and corners plays an increasingly important role as a function of visual acuity, reaching its peak in primates.
There is now some evidence that the gold standards for classification, e.g. CATH (Orengo et al., 1997) and SCOP (Murzin et al., 1997), should not be hierarchical, as they do not reflect the continuum of protein shape.
These results are consistent with traditional morphometric and geometric morphometric analyses of skull shape in carnivorous mammals suggest that Dasyuromorphia and Carnivora are part of a continuum of carnivorous skull shapes [ 41- 43].
Cephalic index (CI) is a simple and useful method of characterizing skull morphology, calculated by dividing skull width by skull length [2], [9], [13], [14], and its use allows an examination of brain organization across the full continuum of dog skull shapes.
Its proponents argue that genetic engineering is one in a continuum of ways humans shape food crops, each of which carries risks: even conventional crossbreeding has occasionally produced toxic varieties of some vegetables.
Rather than a binary future with cord-cutters on one end and cable subscribers on the other, we can start to see a continuum of behavior take shape, with a middle ground populated by individuals who subscribe to one or two streaming services, along with a lightweight cable package like the one that Comcast rolled out last year.
The constraint x²+y² = 1 has a continuum of solutions forming a shape, in this case a circle of radius 1.
The weeks were shaped by a continuum of conference calls, e-mails and messages sent by Blackberry, the wireless instant paging system favored by Mr. Gore and his aides.
A multi-dimensional continuum-level constitutive model of shape memory alloys exhibiting pseudoelastic behavior has been developed in this paper.
