Compared to other plant families, the taxonomy of the family is poorly understood due to their great diversity, difficulty in identifying and reduced taxonomic work done on it.

Compared to modern athletes, they were probably overweight, but this may have " protected their vital organs from the cutting blows of their opponents ".

Compared to glacial conditions, habitable zones have expanded northwards, reaching their northernmost point during the hypsithermal.

Compared to fellow First Ladies when their husbands left office, Reagan's approval was higher than those of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however she was less popular than Barbara Bush and her disapproval rating was double that of Carter's.

Compared to its predecessor, it focused more on the independent national identity and vanguard role of the Palestinian people, led by the PLO, in their " liberation of their homeland " by armed struggle.

Compared to other artiodactyles, their head is relatively long, pointed, and free of warts.

The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca ( CRIC ) issued a statement concerning the release of two hostages taken by FARC in 2011: " Compared to past statements made by the national government, it is important to reiterate that the presence of armed groups in our territories is a fact that has been imposed by force of arms, against which our communities and their leaders have remained in peaceful resistance.

Compared to rotating wings, due to their high exhaust velocity, jets are comparatively inefficient in hover, but jet engines are compact and this gives advantages when much higher top speeds are needed, such as for fighters.

Compared to common chimpanzees, bonobo females resume the genital swelling cycle much sooner after giving birth, enabling them to rejoin the sexual activities of their society.

Compared to non-frail elderly people, people with intermediate frailty scores ( 2 or 3 ) are twice as likely to have post-surgical complications, spend 50 % more time in the hospital, and are three times as likely to be discharged to a skilled nursing facility instead of to their own homes.

Compared to their forebears, the " skeptical generation " was much more capricious, willing to embrace more extreme socialist ideology ( such as Maoism ), and public heroes ( such as Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara ), while living a looser and more promiscuous lifestyle.

Compared with women with superficial endometriosis, those with deep disease appear to be more likely to report shooting rectal pain and a sense of their insides being pulled down.

Compared with individuals who watched television or videos or used their computers for less than one hour daily, those who carried out these behaviors for greater than four hours daily have a twofold increased risk of metabolic syndrome.

Nikolić quotes another survivor, Josip Riboli :“ Compared with Matković and Miloš, whose faces revealed the baseness of their inner natures, Filipović Majstorović seemed kind and gentle-except when the slaughtering was going on.

It has been proposed that human genes " evolved with the expectation of requiring a certain threshold of physical activity " and that sedentary lifestyle results in abnormal gene expression .< ref name =" Cordain1998 "> Compared to ancestral humans, modern humans often have substantially less lean muscle, which is a risk factor for insulin resistance .< ref > Human metabolic processes were evolved in the presence of physical activity-rest cycles, which regularly depleted skeletal muscles of their glycogen stores .< ref > S. Boyd Eaton estimated that ancestral humans spent one-third of their caloric intake on physical activity ( 1000 kcal / day out of the total caloric intake of 3000 kcal / day ), and that the paleolithic lifestyle was well approximated by the WHO recommendation of the physical activity level of 1. 75, or 60 minutes / day of moderate-intensity exercise.

Compared to other types of duck, their legs are placed more towards the centre of their bodies.

Compared to an average bird, all procellariids have a high aspect ratio ( meaning their wings are long and narrow ) and a heavy wing loading.

Compared to many other species of spiders, their chelicerae are not very large or powerful.

Compared to some other " warblers ", their songs are very simple

Scholars believe that Bach intended the works to be considered as a systematically conceived cycle, rather than an arbitrary series of pieces: Compared to Bach's other suite collections, the cello suites are the most consistent in order of their movements.

" Compared to men, women ´ s recall is more accurate and, when not specifically prompted, their narratives are longer than men ´ s " ( Aizpura, 2010 ).

Compared to microeconomic uses of demand and supply, different ( and more controversial ) theoretical considerations apply to such macroeconomic counterparts as aggregate demand and aggregate supply.

Compared to its counterparts, it is also considerably less sweet.

Compared to the Impressionists who came later, Corot's palette is restrained, dominated with browns and blacks (" forbidden colors " among the Impressionists ) along with dark and silvery green.

Compared to other regiments operating in the county, such as the Essex Regiment, the King's acquired a favourable reputation among its adversaries for their professionalism and humane treatment of prisoners — which reputedly saved the lives of some Kingsmen.

Compared to the variants found among Eskimo groups of America, shamanism among Siberian Yupiks stressed more the importance of maintaining good relationship with sea animals.

Compared to earlier check-lists written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, the list by Peters made several significant advances, among others using subspecies ( trinomial nomenclature ), which Bowdler's had not.

Compared with their Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Moravian counter-parts, the greater propensity of Baptist slaves to mobilization may have reflected a higher level of absenteeism among white Baptist missionaries ; the relative independence of Black deacons facilitated greater slave ownership over religious life, including reinterpretations of Baptist theology away from European orthodoxy ( for example, the emphasis placed on John the Baptist, sometimes at the expense of Jesus Christ ) Thomas Burchell, a missionary in Montego Bay returned from England following Christmas vacation.

Compared to most ethnic minorities in the UK, the Chinese are socioeconomically more widespread and decentralised, with a record of high academic achievement and have one of the highest household incomes among demographic groups in the UK.

Compared to the cream gene, which is widespread throughout many breeds on different continents, the champagne gene is rare and found almost exclusively among American horse breeds.

* Compared with rates in whites, the rates of diabetes are 1. 9 times higher among Hispanics, two times higher among African Americans, and 2. 6 times higher among Native Americans

Compared to arcade ports, the ColecoVision did not offer many games original to the console, though a few notable releases are Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, War Room, Illusions, and Fortune Builder, an early milestone in the style of SimCity.

Compared with many of cricket's greatest players, most of whom were specialists, Botham's averages seem fairly ordinary but this overlooks Botham's all-rounder status, which is rarely achieved at world-class level.

Compared to many eighteenth-century authors, Sterne's body of work is quite small.

Compared to Web browsing, e-mail or many other uses of the internet, where data is only transferred in short intervals and relative small quantities, P2P file-sharing often consists of relatively heavy bandwidth usage due to ongoing file transfers and swarm / network coordination packets.

Compared to many other humanoid Star Trek races, Cardassians prefer warmer and darker climates.

Compared to most of its many clones, the original vi is

Compared to residents of other American cities, Bostonians have shorter commute times than many and use public transit more than most.

Compared to other families of seabirds, there are no genera with many species ( such as the 47 Larus gulls ).

Compared by many music critics to The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds because of its inclusion of harmonies and orchestrated sounds, The Soft Bulletin also featured greater use of synthesizers, drum machines, sound effects and more studio manipulation.

Compared to the rest of the Netherlands, Heerde is fairly religious, as are many of the towns and cities in the Veluwe region.

Compared to many other countries, penalties for drunk driving in the United States are light, unless alcohol is involved in an incident causing injury or death of others, in which case they are very heavy compared to other nations.

Compared to technical cameras, press cameras do not have the range of swing / tilt movements of the front standard, and rarely have back movements due to the fact that many were fitted with focal plane shutters.

Compared to many advertising-funded Independent Local Radio ( ILR ) stations, which often broadcast contemporary popular music, BBC nations ' radio stations offer a more " serious " alternative.

Compared to the size of the city, it has many parks, but there are only 4 large.

Compared with the linguistic reconstructions of many Indo-European languages, the current reconstruction of Old ( or " Archaic ") Chinese is more provisional.

Compared to Paleolithic food groups, cereal grains and legumes contain high amounts of antinutrients, including alkylresorcinols, alpha-amylase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, lectins and phytates, substances known to interfere with the body's absorption of many key nutrients.

Compared with Britain and many other countries where the Cortina was originally exported, in New Zealand it has a far superior survival rate due to the climate being far drier and more favorable to the preservation of rust-free classic cars.

Compared to the Chinese reform, many simplified Kanji were less affected ( such as the character for round ( also used to refer to Japanese and Chinese currency ): 円

Compared to the Great White Pelican, the Dalmatian is not as tied to lowland areas and will nest in suitable wetlands at many elevations.

Compared to digital pianos or stage pianos, digital keyboards are usually much lower in cost, have unweighted keyboards but have a great many ancillary controls and usually feature on-board loudspeakers.

Compared to many smaller Accipiter species, Northern Goshawks are less specialized as predators of birds, with up to 69 % of their diet comprised by either birds or mammals depending on location.

Compared to domestic AC power plugs and sockets, DC connectors have many more standard types that are not interchangeable.

Compared with BEA, Pan Am's 727s carried 20 % more passengers than the British carrier's Comet 4Bs and up to 2½ times as many passengers as the latter's Viscounts.

Compared to many smaller Corvus species ( such as American Crow ), ravens prefer undisturbed montane or forest habitat or rural areas over urban areas.