Sentence examples for traits law from inspiring English sources

Although such information may be difficult to obtain, there is a pressing need for estimates of additive genetic variances for traits under direct selection, as well as genetic correlations between related traits (Law 2000, 2007).

Whenever individuals with certain characteristics are more likely to survive harvest or to produce more viable offspring than others, fishing can induce evolutionary changes in life-history traits (Law and Grey 1989; Jørgensen 1990; Sutherland 1990; Law 1991, 2000; Smith 1994; Haugen and Vøllestad 2001; Conover and Munch 2002; Barot et al. 2004; Olsen et al. 2004; Reznick and Ghalambor 2005).

Some consumer databases store DNA with the goal of linking distant relatives and revealing hereditary traits, allowing law enforcement to more easily trace a family tree.

"It is certainly true that in some important traits -- intelligence, law-abidingness, sexual restraint, academic performance, resistance to disease -- whites can be considered 'superior' to blacks.

This occurred alongside the weakening of some of the distinctive traits of the civil-law and common-law traditions in modern bureaucratic states.

Here are some more defining traits: equality before the law, without regard for birth, wealth or ancestry; the mass franchise; universal education; jury trials; regular elections.

Likewise, Sheriff Holloway, formerly a "chuffy little coward, intimidator, bellowing schoolyard tyrant," has "translated these lifelong traits into a fine law enforcement career".

They further assumed that the link between these two life-history traits was following the law of diminishing return: the benefit of an increased virulence, in terms of gained power to contaminate, decreases with virulence.

Still, Gilbert isn't opposed to laying down the law, a trait he first displayed the night he agreed to coach Agassi 10 years ago.

Figure 2 A confirms that epistatic interactions underlying growth traits follow the power-law distribution.

The nature of hunting and fishing suggests that this force may lead to microevolutionary trait changes (Policansky 1993; Law 2000; Allendorf et al. 2008; Allendorf and Hard 2009).