In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

Wild populations of animals and plants have evolved naturally over millions of years through a process of natural selection in contrast to human controlled selective breeding or artificial selection for desirable traits from the human point of view.

Both populations ' DNA results indicate the groups having had a high percentage of marriage within their respective communities ; in contrast to a low percentage of interfaith marriages ( as low as 0. 5 % per generation ).

In contrast, aerosol dynamics explains the evolution of complete aerosol populations.

In contrast, high water during deluges ( lake marsh phase ) causes turnover in plant populations and creates greater interspersion of element cover and open water, but lowers overall productivity.

In North America, the populations seem to have been stable by contrast, except in the east.

In contrast, the Upper Canada Rebellion was not broadly supported by local populations to begin with, was quickly quelled by relatively small numbers of pro-government militias and volunteers, and so was consequently less widespread and brutal in comparison.

The odds of an adult Yellow Warbler to survive from one year to the next are on average 50 %; in the southern populations, by contrast, about two-thirds of the adults survive each year.

By contrast, the tropical populations are host to the Shiny Cowbird ( M. bonariensis ), but less than one nest in 10 is affected.

The tropical populations, by contrast, need more than 100 days per breeding.

Jews have also been called the Blue-Hat Hui (), in contrast to other populations of Hui people, who have identified with hats of other colors.

Genetic polymorphism is actively and steadily maintained in populations by natural selection, in contrast to transient polymorphisms where a form is progressively replaced by another.

Compared to the now-extinct westernmost populations, the Far Eastern Siberian tiger's summer and winter coats contrast sharply with other subspecies.

By contrast, " Old World " diseases had a devastating impact on Native American populations because they had no natural immunity to the new diseases.

Polymorphism is actively and steadily maintained in populations of species by natural selection ( most famously sexual dimorphism in humans ) in contrast to transient polymorphisms where conditions in a habitat change in such a way that a " form " is being replaced completely by another.

In contrast, their populations disperse during the spring to establish sexually segregated colonies .< ref > Sherman, A. R., C. O.

Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded, and typically cover the primary health care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialized treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.

It is useful to contrast the mass migrations and forced expulsion of ethnic Germans out of Eastern Europe with other massive transfers of populations, such as exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, and population exchanges that occurred after the Partition of India.

Sympatric populations ( or species ) contrast with parapatric populations, which contact one another in adjacent but not shared ranges and do not interbreed ; peripatric species, which are separated only by areas in which neither organism occurs ; and allopatric species, which occur in entirely distinct ranges that are neither adjacent nor overlapping.

* 1997 / 1998: Several changes in Sea surface temperature and marine ecosystem occurred in the North Pacific after 1997 / 1998, in contrast to prevailing anomalies observed after the 1970s shift SST declined along the United States west coast and substantial changes in the populations of salmon, anchovy and sardine were observed, however the spatial pattern of the SST change was different with a meridional SST seesaw in the central and western Pacific that resemble a strong shift in the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation rather than the PDO structure, this pattern dominated much of the North Pacific SST variability after 1989.

In contrast, areas with introduced beaver were associated with increased populations of the native catadromous puye fish ( Galaxias maculatus ).

In the 1970s many Jewish families from Brooklyn and Queens settled in Bay Terrace, providing a significant demographic contrast with the surrounding communities, whose populations are still largely Italian-American, though they are becoming increasingly Russian-American as well.

" In sharp contrast, Swinburne the poet would comment on this same theme: " Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean ; the world has grown grey from thy breath ; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.

In contrast, the Safavids eventually conquered Iran, shed their heterodox religious beliefs, and became proponents of orthodox Twelver Shi ' a Islam.

This presents an implicit contrast with previous conquerors, notably the Assyrian rulers Tukulti-Ninurta I, who invaded and plundered Babylon in the 12th century BC, and Sennacherib, who did the same thing 150 years before Cyrus conquered the region.

The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;

The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.

I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

In contrast to this voluntary-control explanation for nonreactivity given by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects, the Kohnstamm-negative subjects offered an involuntary-control hypothesis to explain nonreactivity.

Phonemes connected by a morphophonemic rule commonly show a good bit of phonetic similarity, possible because of the several dimensions of contrast in the system.

These areas, by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern, stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued -- and set to shuttling again -- only by conventional perspective ; ;

For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.

And the surface is driven back, in its very surfaceness, only by this contrast.

and these capitals seem in turn to be pushed back by their placing, and by contrast with the corporeality of the woodgraining.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

Backstage was tomblike by contrast.

the similitude of God, by contrast, is that which makes a man a child of God and not merely a rational creature.

In contrast, the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, and Mao.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.

In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Dharmic tradition, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life, rather than through the decision of another being.

Birds of humid Andean forests include mountain-toucans, quetzals and the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, while mixed species flocks dominated by tanagers and Furnariids commonly are seen-in contrast to several vocal but typically cryptic species of wrens, tapaculos and antpittas.

In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.

In contrast to the depictions of difficult labor above, an alternative version is presented in Amphitryon, a comedic play by Plautus.