Mr. O'Connor's "variation and variation," a new work for 10 women in point shoes, is more of a stretch.
"Fast variation," meaning variation on a timescale faster than measurable, is represented by a Gaussian white noise process.
Present knowledge of the mechanisms of inheritance are such that modern scientists can distinguish more satisfactorily than Darwin between non-inheritable bodily variation and variation of a genuinely inheritable kind.
We define micro-environmental variation as variation within a single treatment group (e.g. long days), and macro-environmental variation as the variation between treatment groups.
The proportion of students who explicitly represented genetic variation, phenotypic variation, and a direct genotype-to-phenotype connection increased on the final exam, although not significantly.
As a result, A Taste of Honey is a variation on a variation on a theme.
People at that time, and for themselves or a few others, might play only what they liked from it, a variation here, a variation there.
So that's a variation, but it's a variation in a pattern that we're seeing all over.
If the first half of the book is a cover of Thomas Mann's novella, then the second half is a cover of a cover, a variation on a variation — Dyer improvising on himself.
The trouble is that Catholic universalism is not so convincing to those whose idea of local variation involves a variation on the Catholic ritual, or wanting some other ritual, or wanting no ritual at all.
