SUCCESSFUL hands-on restorers of the grittiest old work boats tend to possess a blend of seemingly paradoxical traits.
And as Darwin himself pointed out, sexual selection creates paradoxical traits in males of many species, like huge peacock tails -- so useless for flight, so good for impressing peahens.
If it were, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Walter White, for instance, could never have identified himself as "a Negro," served as executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. or written this paradoxical sentence: "The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me".
Second, innovation paradoxes require paradoxical management approaches.
Above all else, throughout its 25 years, the OAF has retained what is perhaps its signature trait: its complex and paradoxical nature.
Central to this problem is the position of the Tetraphidopsida, a small group of two genera and five species with a seemingly paradoxical combination of morphological and molecular traits.
While the conclusions of this section are largely negative, Section 5 illustrates how apparently paradoxical data can support causal models for the evolution of traits that at first appear to be incompatible with a setting in which natural selection disadvantages individuals that exhibit the traits.
The compounds discussed in this review exploit this fitness cost and the ensuing paradoxical hypersensitivity that is invariably associated with the acquisition of the resistant trait.
This seemingly paradoxical relationship also extends to other glucose- and lipid-related traits.
Although this observation may seem paradoxical, it fits with a multifactorial model of how complex human traits are influenced by numerous genes that interact with one another, and with the environment, to produce a specific phenotype.
