Current hypotheses suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.

Canis lupus is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, as its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species, at global level, does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories.

Capybaras are on the IUCN list, but are not considered a threatened species ; their population is stable through most of their South American range, though in some areas, hunting has reduced their numbers.

In game theory, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology, an evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ) is a strategy which, if adopted by a population of players in a given environment, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy that is initially rare.

It is a Nash equilibrium that is " evolutionarily " stable: once it is fixed in a population, natural selection alone is sufficient to prevent alternative ( mutant ) strategies from invading successfully.

Definitions of the niche date back to 1917, but G. Evelyn Hutchinson made conceptual advances in 1957 by introducing a widely adopted definition: " the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes.

By New X-Men # 115, Genosha had a population of sixteen million mutants and a stable, advanced society.

Although the Holy See, as distinct from the Vatican City State, does not fulfil the long-established criteria in international law of statehood — having a permanent population, a defined territory, a stable government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states — its possession of full legal personality in international law is shown by the fact that it maintains diplomatic relations with 179 states, that it is a member-state in various intergovernmental international organizations, and that it is: " respected by the international community of sovereign States and treated as a subject of international law having the capacity to engage in diplomatic relations and to enter into binding agreements with one, several, or many states under international law that are largely geared to establish and preserving peace in the world.

* The general population prefers to keep its wealth in non-monetary assets or in a relatively stable foreign currency.

* The general population regards monetary amounts not in terms of the local currency but in terms of a relatively stable foreign currency.

The water from these two great rivers, and the fertility of the soil in the alluvial plain and the delta, allowed early agriculture to sustain a stable population as far back as the 7th millennium BC.

DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ) network that is currently populated by a stable population of around 14, 000 users in about 7, 000 channels, with 33 servers making up the network.

The global population is fluctuating considerably over the years but remains generally stable ; it is roughly estimated at 1-2 million pairs or so, about 20 % of which are found in Europe.

After World War II, the ethnic Lithuanian population remained stable: 79. 3 % in 1959 to 83. 5 % in 2002.

A family of four ferrets will eat 250 prairie dogs in a year ; this requires a stable population of prairie dogs from an area of some.

The population as a whole has remained stable in the 1990s, although this is the result of a negative natural balance and a positive net migration.

The effective population size of the Sichuan population is larger and more stable than that of the Yunnan population, implying a southward expansion from Sichuan to Yunnan.

Following figures show that the ethnic composition of the resident population has been stable over the last 30 years, while non-resident population has boomed.

The Sinhalese have a stable birth rate and a population that has been growing at a slow pace relative to India and other Asian countries.

Hunting and trapping has reduced the species ' range to about one third, though its still relatively widespread range and stable population means that the species is not threatened at a global level, and is therefore classified by the IUCN as Least Concern.

World population was essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering tribes.

World population was essentially stable at approximately 5 million, though some speculate up to 7 million.

The last-named is one of the favorites in the stable, and the boys like her very much.

and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.

Each house consisted of just one room and this room was used as kitchen, living room, bedroom and even stable.

A stable one-pass algorithm exists, similar to the one above, that computes:

Primordial beryllium contains only one stable isotope, < sup > 9 </ sup > Be, and therefore beryllium is a monoisotopic element.

Natural boron is composed of two stable isotopes, one of which ( boron-10 ) has a number of uses as a neutron-capturing agent.

Ninety – four different chemical elements or types of atoms based on the number of protons are observed on earth naturally, having at least one isotope that is stable or has a very long half-life.

This includes a shared British cultural heritage, warfare during the 1770s and 1812, and the eventual development of one of the most stable and mutually-beneficial international relationships in the modern world.

Today, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, a recognized middle power and an emerging economy.

The economy of Chile is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, and is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, leading Latin American nations in human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption.

Costa Rica has a reputation as one of the most stable, prosperous, and among the least corrupt in Latin America.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

Most ( 66 of 94 ) naturally occurring elements have more than one stable isotope.

Of the 80 elements with at least one stable isotope, 26 have only one stable isotope, and the mean number of stable isotopes for the 80 stable elements is 3. 1 stable isotopes per element.

Second, and even more importantly, working memory allows information to be integrated over time so that it can generate a stable representation of the world — Gerald Edelman expressed this point vividly by titling one of his books about consciousness The Remembered Present.

It is one of the most stable and prosperous of the post-Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe.

Voegelin has analyzed this experience in the case of the stable, healthy community.

-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.

But up to date he has shown as much as any in the big Simpson stable.

Erikson has postulated that such ideological polarization temporarily resolves their search for something stable and definite in the rapidly changing and fluctuating no-man's-land between childhood and adulthood.

The most stable of these is < sup > 124 </ sup > Sb with a half-life of 60. 20 days, which has an application in some neutron sources.

* The farmer has a solid, stable position in the world order.

A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.

* Atomization of the sample from a graphite platform inserted into the graphite tube ( L ’ vov platform ) instead of from the tube wall in order to delay atomization until the gas phase in the atomizer has reached a stable temperature ;

Bromine has two stable isotopes, < sup > 79 </ sup > Br ( 50. 69 %) and < sup > 81 </ sup > Br ( 49. 31 %).

At ambient conditions, berkelium assumes its most stable α form which has a hexagonal symmetry, space group P6 < sub > 3 </ sub >/ mmc, lattice parameters of 341 pm and 1107 pm.

It is a synthetic element whose most stable known isotope, < sup > 270 </ sup > Bh, has a half-life of 61 seconds.

During the past few centuries of detailed, scientific study of the Bronze Age, it has become clear that on the whole, the use of copper or bronze was only the most stable and therefore the most diagnostic part of a cluster of features marking the period.

In 1931, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron-degenerate matter above a certain limiting mass ( now called the Chandrasekhar limit at 1. 4 solar masses ) has no stable solutions.

The no-hair theorem states that, once it achieves a stable condition after formation, a black hole has only three independent physical properties: mass, charge, and angular momentum.

In this case, " over centre " refers to the ratchet being stable and " locked " in a given position until clicked forward again ; it has nothing to do with the ratchet being unable to turn in the reverse direction.

Croatia has a stable market economy accompanied by a strong and stable currency, the Kuna.

If an element has isotopes that are not radioactive, they are termed " stable.

Calcium has four stable isotopes (< sup > 40 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 42 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 43 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 44 </ sup > Ca ), plus two more isotopes (< sup > 46 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 48 </ sup > Ca ) that have such long half-lives that for all practical purposes they also can be considered stable.

This is the heaviest stable isotope of any element that has equal numbers of protons and neutrons.