Sentences with phrase «few human traits»

I define stupidity as «remediable but unremedied ignorance,» and few human traits are more evident to a reader of your average website.

Not exact matches

A clue to its extreme age is the fact that it is grown only from a division of the rhizomes, and not from seed — an indication that it has been under human control for so long that it has lost the ability to propagate from seed — one of the few spices with this trait.

Co-author Heidi Parker, a geneticist at NHGRI, says that because humans initially bred dogs for specific traits — say, smaller body size or calm temperament — selection created a population «bottleneck» that narrowed the genetic variation in offspring, leaving them with just a few specific clusters of variable genetic regions.

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes.

In the past few years, functional genomics, epigenomics, and regulatory genomics datasets have begun to drive the formulation and testing of mechanistic hypotheses that link specific genetic variants within implicated loci to human traits and phenotypes.

Dismissing dangerous dog behavior ---- or blaming the victims ---- disregards public trust SPRINGFIELD, Missouri; PHUKET, Thailand ---- Superficially, the dog - versus - human conflicts raging in Springfield, Missouri, where breed - specific legislation is at issue, and in Phuket, Thailand, where few dogs have any evident breed - specific traits, could scarcely look more different.

Here's another comment by David providing a pretty sobering assessment of whether reason can ever dominate deeper human traits, including tribalism and what might be called «now - ism,» as societies weigh choices in the next few decades: