Rather, it's a host of improvements to our lives that cumulatively improve our chances of living longer and stronger, many of which echo the factors identified by Huseland.
Every now and then, when you open Gmail, YouTube or Search itself, a revised look or a fresh feature appears, dissolves without a trace and cumulatively improves the quality of the service.
When many such indicators are used together, however, they tend to cumulatively improve the evidence for a change.
The main purpose of a long term breeding programme is to generate cumulatively improved plant material as well as to create genetic diversity of the breeding population for as many generations as possible.
In a review of Full House, Richard Dawkins approved of Gould's general argument, but suggested that he saw evidence of a "tendency for lineages to improve cumulatively their adaptive fit to their particular way of life, by increasing the numbers of features which combine together in adaptive complexes..
But as established firms' efforts to improve their products (what we call "sustaining innovations" in disruptive innovation theory), together with some occasional high-end disruptions, made products and services cumulatively better year after year, so many became so good that consumers either could not appreciate the product improvements or were simply unwilling to pay for them.
While the practice of river restoration has grown exponentially over the last several decades, there has been little empirical evaluation of whether restoration projects individually or cumulatively achieve the legally mandated goals of improving the structure and function of streams and rivers.
Cumulatively, our findings support the use of exogenous conditioning of DCs to ensure their survival and, thus, may prove crucial in improving the efficacy of DC-based immunotherapies for cancer.
Despite conferring minimal increase in risk, individual genetic variants when considered cumulatively can result in considerable effects, leading to improved risk stratification.
Collectively and cumulatively, consistent use of the successful choices would improve local health and economic outcomes, and some choices would spread widely.
