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selection and included
These included the concept of warning colouration in animals, and the Wallace effect, a hypothesis on how natural selection could contribute to speciation by encouraging the development of barriers against hybridization.
When afflicted individuals have an equal chance of being included in a study this is called truncate selection, signifying the inadvertent exclusion ( truncation ) of families who are carriers for a gene.
Because selection is performed on the individual level, families with two or more affected children would have a higher probability of becoming included in the study.
Some innovations of the time included irrigation to bring water into the dry regions and the selection of seed based on the traits of the growing plants that bore them.
In the past few years, the field has exploded to include many additional areas of study, not all of which are clearly included under Darwin's definition of sexual selection.
In January 1871, George Jackson Mivart's On the Genesis of Species listed detailed arguments against natural selection, and claimed it included false metaphysics.
Others that rejected natural selection, but supported " creation by birth ", included the Duke of Argyll who explained beauty in plumage by design.
After the Tour organisation felt that the 2000 Tour de France included not enough French teams, they changed the selection procedure as follows.
Volume I contains the major works, and volume II contains shorter writings, both published essays and a selection of letters, but confusingly organized ; in addition, Foner's attributions of writings to Paine have come in for some criticism in that Foner may have included writings that Paine edited but did not write and omitted some writings that later scholars have attributed to Paine.
During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.
The 2000 season started with the selection of future Pro Bowler Chris Samuels and the tumultuous LaVar Arrington in the 2000 NFL Draft and included five consecutive wins in the first half of the season.
Murasaki's poems were published in 1206 by Fujiwara Teika, in what Mulhern believes to be the collection that is closest to the original form ; at around the same time Teika included a selection of Murasaki's works in an imperial anthology, New Collections of Ancient and Modern Times.
The full 12-byte address also included a 32-bit network number for routing purposes, and a 16-bit socket number for service selection.
Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.
In 1980, The Compleat Feghoot collected all of Bretnor's Feghoots published up to that time and included a selection of winners and honorable mentions from a contest run by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Also, a selection of games from other companies other than Blizzard have been included in the Best Sellers Series.
Cui's activities in musical life included also membership on the opera selection committee at the Mariinsky Theatre ; this stint ended in 1883, when both he and Rimsky-Korsakov left the committee in protest of its rejection of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina.
The selection decision prompted a vote no confidence in the selectors at the MCC, but it was to no avail as Gower was not included.
In 2007, Dominic Molon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago organized an exhibition titled, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, and included a selection of Pettibon ’ s original drawings from Black Flag concert flyers and album covers.
The song was originally intended to be included on the debut album, but was left out at the final selection, which may explain why the song is somewhat at odds with the darker feel of the second album.
Also included were a number of paleontologists like Edward Drinker Cope and Alpheus Hyatt who felt that the fossil record showed orderly, almost linear, patterns of development that they felt were better explained by Lamarckian mechanisms than by natural selection.
Consisting of " a selection of beloved fan favorites selected from the group's extensive catalogue and presented in an intimate semi-unplugged format ", the album also included two new songs, " Olde English 800 " and " I Remember a Rooftop ", as well as a cover version of the Violent Femmes ' " I Held Her in My Arms ".
The eighteen-song selection included " Shed a Tear " and " Cold Cold Heart ", which were recorded especially for the album and released as singles.
The traits, for which the selection was done included growth rate, feed consumption, protein retention, energy retention, and feed conversion efficiency.
She wrote a book of her life experiences with the same title, which included a selection of Weight Watcher recipes.

selection and stories
While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.
Because many of his stories were originally published in long-forgotten magazines and journals, there are a number of anthologies by different collators each containing a different selection.
Soviet newspapers carried stories about Chernenko's death and Gorbachev's selection on the same day.
Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.
But Gould did not rule out sociobiological explanations for many aspects of animal behavior, writing: " Sociobiologists have broadened their range of selective stories by invoking concepts of inclusive fitness and kin selection to solve ( successfully I think ) the vexatious problem of altruism — previously the greatest stumbling block to a Darwinian theory of social behavior ...
In his introduction to the first, The Saint on TV, Charteris called these volumes a team effort in which he oversaw selection of stories, initially adaptations of scripts written the 1962 69 TV series The Saint, and with Fleming Lee writing the adaptations ( other authors took over from Lee ).
The first, second and third place winners and often a selection of the other finalist stories are published annually, for which the writers receive additional compensation for publication rights.
Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, in the selection of which events and stories are reported and how they are covered.
He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.
He edited Henry James ' The Wings of the Dove and a two-volume selection of James ' short stories.
* Stories to Remember ( 1956 ) a selection of novels and short stories chosen by Costain and John Beecroft.
* Come Read with Me ( 1965 ), a selection of short stories and novellas
Dark Horse reprinted the Harrier series as Immortality isn't Forever in 1990 and a selection of the short stories as Doing the Islands With Bacchus in 1991.
In 1930 there was a third edition, containing an added preface and a slightly different selection of stories with slightly different ordering.
Also in 1975, a selection of his black-and-white underground comix stories was collected in hardcover as The Richard Corben Funnybook from Kansas City's Nickelodeon Press.
He wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopédie, published an essay on " Luxury " in 1764, brought out an edition of The Seasons with a selection of his other poetry and some short stories in 1769, and completed a multi-volume philosophical work in 1797-98, called Principe des mœurs chez toutes les nations ou Catéchisme universel ( Principle of morals among all nations, or universal catechism ).
A selection from his stories ( 1889 ), in the " Camelot Series ", has an introduction by William Butler Yeats.
These larger stores span many stories high and carry a much broader range and selection of goods than The Bay stores in shopping malls.
His great-niece and biographer, Jean, Lady Polwarth, published a collection of his short stories ( or sketches ) entitled Beattock for Moffatt and the Best of Cunninghame Graham ( 1979 ) and Alexander Maitland added his selection under the title Tales of Horsemen ( 1981 ).
A selection of his short stories was published posthumously in 1978 under the title In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories and was edited by James Atlas who had written a biography on Schwartz, Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet, two years earlier.
This collection contained fewer stories than In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories but it also included a selection of some of Schwartz's best-known poems like " The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me " and " In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave ".
A free section, featuring a selection of news stories, is currently available at the site.
* Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, 1997 ( anthology ; includes the original play Judge Dee Plays his Lute and a selection of uncollected short stories )
A selection of his stories in prose and verse was edited by Eugène Asse in 1878 ; his Poèsies by Octave Uzanne in 1886 ; and the Correspondence inédite de la comtesse de Sabran et du chevalier de Boufflers ( 1778-1788 ), by E de Magnieu and Henri Prat in 1875.

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