Ms. Genaux may not yet have attained the eminence of Farinelli, but she possesses a trait that is all too rare, even among so-called Baroque specialists: the ability to negotiate a fiendishly difficult bout of vocal fireworks accurately, on pitch and with a sense of enjoyment rather than abject terror.
For instance, in order to measure "openness," Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, the creators of one of the most widely used personality measures, the NEO-PI-R, use "favors conservative values" as one of the items to assess the degree to which someone possesses a trait.
Because, as the paper put it: "Hair on the face and body are potential localised breeding sites for disease-carrying ectoparasites", it is argued that any man able to grow and maintain a beard must be more resilient to illnesses – "advertising their superior immune system through possessing a trait that is immunologically costly".
Many of the original Maine Coon cats that inhabited the New England area possessed a trait known as polydactylism (having one or more extra toes on the feet).
Other families possessed a trait for salt-enhanced growth that was not reliant on seed composition.
The survivors of viability selection (according to equation 1) were less likely to survive to reproduction if they possessed a trait value near the population mean of the competing species, a standard assumption in the formulation of co-evolutionary models [ 28, 29].
Passage (ii) refers to the high likelihood that at least some among a large number of people will possess a desired trait.
It's that everyman, relatable quality they possess; an attractive trait that makes the viewer think, "Hey, that guy isn't so bad.
FC Dallas still possess a rather inconvenient trait of capitulating when things get tough – as happened in the 5-0 thumping at CenturyLink Field not so long ago – while the Rapids remain one of MLS's lowest scorers.
Would you like your future child to possess a specific genetic trait whether you possess it or not?
