Any self-replicating mechanism which does not make a perfect copy will result in the creation of different variants and thus be subject to natural selection as the variants which are better at persisting in their environment will outlive and outreproduce variants which are not so suited to their environment.

If instead the rows are counted, the result is an exact representation of the original roll – a perfect digital copy.

Immediately before the chrome copy tape came into contact with the mirror mother master, a focused laser beam heated it to its Curie point at which its value of coercivity dropped to very low values so that it picked up a near perfect copy of the master as it cooled.

Temporary bodies are created and discarded, but good genes live forever in the form of perfect replicas of themselves, a result of high-fidelity copy process which is typical of digital encoding.

Cloned from a damaged copy of Wolverine's genome, X-23 was created to be the perfect killing machine.

This perfect copy allowed all of the television studio and production control room video monitors, and home television sets, to be identically adjusted for minimum distortions such as ovals instead of circles.

Meanwhile, his early cloning experiments had a variation of results — out of his numerous attempts to clone Peter Parker, only one was a perfect copy of the original.

His most prized creation, however, was what he perceived was a perfect copy of Gwen Stacy.

Before this seemingly perfect copy of Gwen died at the hands of Abby-L, it was revealed she actually had some degeneration on her hand, that may suspect that she was not perfect after all.

Such a " clone " will not be a perfect copy since different brands and types of parts ( often newer parts ) will be used, and mechanical aspects of construction will likely differ.

The RIAA and music publishers, concerned that consumers ' ability to make perfect digital copies of music would destroy the market for audio recordings, had threatened to sue companies and had lobbied Congress to pass legislation imposing mandatory copy protection technology and royalties on devices and media.

The recording industry concurrently sought a legislative solution to the perceived threat posed by perfect multi-generation copies, introducing legislation mandating that device makers incorporate copy protection technology as early as 1987.

Frank sometimes had a sidekick in the form of " Little Frank ", a hand puppet who was otherwise a perfect copy of Frank.

It is of a small size, and uses a file format which is not capable of creating a perfect pixel-to-pixel copy of the cover.

‘ Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be .’ He argues that the ‘ sphere of authenticity is outside the technical ’ so that the original artwork is independent of the copy, yet through the act of reproduction something is taken from the original by changing its context.

Lossless compression algorithms reduce file size while preserving a perfect copy of the original uncompressed image.

Lossy compression algorithms preserve a representation of the original uncompressed image that may appear to be a perfect copy, but it is not a perfect copy.

The energy for any isothermal work done by the perfect gas must come as thermal energy from its surroundings.

Shannon's work on information theory showed that to achieve so called perfect secrecy, it is necessary for the key length to be at least as large as the message to be transmitted and only used once ( this algorithm is called the One-time pad ).

There he studied the Ute and Southern Paiute languages, intending originally to work on Hopi he decided to work with Tony Tillohash who proved to be the perfect informant.

A perfect example of formalist criticism of auteur style would be the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.

The figure is related to Heliodurus's work, Aethiopian History with its description of " a young Lady, sitting upon a Rock, of so rare and perfect a Beauty, as one would have taken her for a Goddess, and though her present misery opprest her with extreamest grief, yet in the greatness of her afflection, they might easily perceive the greatness of her Courage: A Laurel crown'd her Head, an a Quiver in a Scarf hanged at her back ".

" When concluding about the work, he declared, " The elements of this melody are only the common and well-known ones of English versification ; our author is always felicitous in their management, but no where has he blended them in so perfect a combination as in this instance.

The quaddies, genetically engineered to be the perfect zero gravity workers, practice a communalism in which the work gang is the basic unit of governance.

Definitive postmodern architecture such as the work of Michael Graves and Robert Venturi reject the notion of a ' pure ' form or ' perfect ' architectonic detail, instead conspicuously drawing from all methods, materials, forms and colors available to architects.

The Tractatus, as Bertrand Russell saw it ( though it should be noted that Wittgenstein took strong exception to Russell's reading ), had been an attempt to set out a logically perfect language, building on Russell's own work.

The culmination of his life's work was the Institutio oratoria ( Institutes of Oratory, or alternatively, The Orator's Education ), a lengthy treatise on the training of the orator in which he discusses the training of the " perfect " orator from birth to old age and, in the process, reviews the doctrines and opinions of many influential rhetoricians who preceded him.

Quintilian's work describes not just the art of rhetoric, but the formation of the perfect orator as a politically active, virtuous, publicly minded citizen.

Spirituality has played a central role in self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous: "... if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead ...."

* Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products ; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

Kelly has stated: " Tertullian followed the Apologists in dating His “ perfect generation ” from His extrapolation for the work of creation ; prior to that moment God could not strictly be said to have had a Son, while after it the term “ Father ”, which for earlier theologians generally connoted God as author of reality, began to acquire the specialized meaning of Father and Son .".

It may also require calculating the best foot work to executing the " perfect " block.

The program's design should be perfect before people begin to implement the design ( otherwise they implement the wrong design and their work is wasted ), etc.

" God's plan for the world is that men should work together to renew and constantly perfect the temporal order.

The third work, Ascent of Mount Carmel is a more systematic study of the ascetical endeavour of a soul looking for perfect union, God, and the mystical events happening along the way.

The natural laws consider the Universe as a whole a perfect work of God.

William Camden saw " some secret constellation " of the stars at work between Elizabeth and her favourite, and firmly established the legend of the perfect courtier with the sinister influence.

The work was intended to " create the perfect apprentice ".

The Berkeley acting coach decided Peck would be perfect for university theater work.

James considered The Ambassadors ( 1903 ) his most " perfect " work of art.