Assuming a hypothetico-deductive conception of theories and appealing also to Darwin's intentions, the British philosopher Michael Ruse in the early 1970s claimed that evolutionary theory is in fact like a "fan," with population genetics the study of genetic variation and selection at the population level at the top and the other branches spreading out below.
In Chinese population, Fan et al. reported a significant difference in FokI polymorphism between autoimmune hepatitis patients and controls, and a significant association in BsmI polymorphisms between primary biliary cirrhosis patients and controls [ 34].
The large Shiite population fans suspicions that Iran will seek to exploit instability there to extend its influence to the other side of the Persian Gulf, even though Shiite parties in Bahrain insist that this is not a religious dispute.
An individual can be 'infected' through contact with fans in the population - typically due to the influence of family or friends, but individuals may also lose interest and recover or become immune to all future exposures.
That's a lot to be keeping happy, and of course this is the overriding reason why "man loses job" feels, in this instance, so epochal; the dizzying sense of scale, the fact that the number of people claiming to be Man United fans dwarfs the population of every country on Earth beyond India and China.
Our ranking is based on five criteria: stadium attendance (a combination of consecutive sell-outs and average season stadium capacity), television ratings (as provided by Nielsen), merchandise sales (per NFLShop.com), social media reach (a combination of Facebook likes and Twitter followers based on the team's metro area population), and fan club presence (based on the active number found online).
The egg's fans have passed the population of Canada.
But a large portion of our fans, based on sheer population figures alone, are in the Northeast.
Since the film of your book "Fight Club" came out, you've developed a pretty obsessed population of fans.
