It is a serious, debilitating condition that affects about 5% of the population, causing hypertension, heart disease and respiratory failure.
Researchers have tried for generations to understand the biological underpinnings of schizophrenia, which affects 1percentt of the population, causing scrambled thinking and delusions.
Nevertheless, the criticism has cowed environmentalists and NGOs which once championed the population cause, influencing policy, pushing the subject off the agenda, or shifting the emphasis solely to "reproductive health" without the numbers.
An elemental question kept crossing my mind as I browsed dozens of volumes of gay history and theory: Why has this small part of the population caused such vexation across the centuries?
Dr John McCauley of the institute cited the instance of the 1957 pandemic which had a mortality rate of 0.1 per cent but which infected between 30 per cent and 70 per cent of the population, causing about two million deaths.
The pressure (predation) influences the evolution of a species by removing individuals from the population, causing differential survival.
Low back pain affects a large portion of the population causing a major social and economic effect.
These new trends are impacting a rapidly growing portion of the population, causing investment funds to flow from top VC firms such as Greylock, who dedicated an entire $100 million fund to marketplaces.
This variability is non-synchronised in the population, causing high variability between individuals, and changes in the feeding intensity cause additional variability.
In such cases, an actual difference in the gene among the organisms in the population caused the actual phenotypic differences in that population (see Gifford 1990).
