Based on differences in the disparity of the three curves for each age of transplantation, we conclude that short-term caloric restriction has far greater influence on tumour development than long-term caloric restriction.
While there are bound to be differences in performance, the disparity between the high-fliers and the stragglers appears to be more pronounced than in other countries.
If the actual disparity difference between the two original groups was greater then the upper bound of this interval, then the difference in morphological disparity between the samples derived from the two lakes being compared was considered to be significant.
If modularity influences morphological evolution, one would expect differences in the morphological disparity of the "strong modules", those with significant within-module trait correlations in most taxa, and the "weak modules", those with mean within-module trait correlations that are significant in some examined species, but not significant in most of the taxa in each clade.
This index quantifies the overall difference in relative disparity for the trait among and within subclades (i.e., differences in the range of variation) compared with the expectation under the null Brownian motion model [ 13, 62, 65].
They found that, while the White Sea assemblage had the most species, there was no significant difference in disparity between the three groups, and concluded that before the beginning of the Avalon timespan these organisms must have gone through their own evolutionary "explosion", which may have been similar to the famous Cambrian explosion.
In a study comparing the USA to England and Wales, reductions in circulatory diseases were causing most of the changes in lifespan variation over time (in each country), whereas differences in external mortality explained much of the difference in life disparity between countries at any given time.
When all pinnipeds are included, pinniped disparity was larger, but the pinniped confidence interval overlapped with the fissiped value, indicating that there was not a significant difference in disparity between the two groups.
The unique feature of this population (experiencing the world's fastest economic development) allowed us to compare the difference in the evolvement of social disparity in obesity between the traditionally long-term developed Western populations and populations under more recent and rapid economic development.
