In both regions, however, the diversity build-up on the plant side appears to have been gradual, with individual species adapting to hummingbirds in < <0.5 Ma and many co-occurring species 'serviced' by the same bird species ([ 56, 57] cf. tanglegrams Figs. 1 and 2).
The court has been accused of assisting the gradual degradation of individual rights and cannot remove the accusation by overriding the individual's right to be heard through the voting process.
The Gurlitt case could represent nothing less than "the final charge of the story of the Third Reich against the gradual forgetting of individual lives and fates".
However wide the generational span of Beaton's acquaintance — the full run of his diaries takes us from Mrs. Patrick Campbell to Bianca Jagger — what's most remarkable about the journals is the gradual darkening of individual portraits over time.
There could not be a more crucial moment to draw upon our gradual taming of individual violence, along with our growing awareness of the grotesque consequences of numbed technological violence, to achieve lasting forms of what can be called peace.
While it's good to hear that lottery funding for the arts will eventually increase to 20%, the faith in (and encouragement to rely on) income from philanthropy is potentially very worrying, especially given the gradual disintegration of individual giving in the US.
Larger, community-wide tipping points are the result of the gradual accumulation of individual tipping points, of people "turning on" to trust their own potential, and that of their ideas and projects.
No less than the U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission, back in pre-Internet and pre-cell phone days of the late '70s, agreed with Douglas: "The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable".
Meanwhile, the gradual decriminalization of individual marijuana use - together with a nascent movement to reform the criminal justice system and sentencing laws - promises to keep more men and women out of the corrections system and provide those that need them with services that can prevent recidivism and improve health.
Comparative analyses of Buchnera, the primary mutualist of aphids, suggest that ongoing genome reduction proceeds primarily as a gradual erosion of individual genes, rather than by punctuated losses of large DNA segments encoding multiple genes [ 11].
