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The unusually high rate of the Tay-Sachs mutation in Ashkenazi Jews today may relate to advantages the mutation gave this population in the past.
People had already recognized that while Jews and non-Jews in Europe had been equally likely to contract TB during this time, the death rate among non-Jews was twice as high.
In these environments, where TB posed an especially high threat, those individuals who were not carriers of any genetic protection would have been more likely to die.
So heterozygote advantage can help explain why problematic versions of genes persist at high frequencies in certain populations.
Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan.
She was the high priestess of the moon god and history’s first known author.
She was born in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the birthplace of the first cities and high cultures.
To bridge the gap between cultures, Sargon appointed his only daughter, Enheduanna, as high priestess in the empire’s most important temple.
As high priestess, Enheduanna managed grain storage for the city, oversaw hundreds of temple workers, interpreted sacred dreams, and presided over the monthly new moon festival and rituals celebrating the equinoxes.
Her nephew, the legendary Sumerian king Naram-Sin, ultimately crushed the uprising and restored his aunt as high priestess.
In total, Enheduanna served as high priestess for 40 years.
And if we really want to get out of this economic mess, if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.
But it's saying that what we can do about it is very little, at a very high cost.
To start thinking about saying, "Let's do not the things where we can do very little at a very high cost, not the things that we don't know how to do, but let's do the great things where we can do an enormous amount of good, at very low cost, right now."
We have the high income countries here, with the United States as a leading power; we have the emerging economies in the middle, which provide a lot of the funding for the bailout; and we have the low income countries here.
And in spite of them having quite a high income, they have a huge number of HIV infected.
And there are others who are extremely high.
They have a very high level.
And we have a high hope in you.
Technology is an instrument that allowed me to manifest my visions in high definition, live, on stage.
I don't know if we named the apple or if the apple named us, but ... but, to be honest, the description goes on and it says that it "doesn't rank high in quality, however."
What's interesting about high falls is that although we use airbags, and some airbags are quite advanced, they're designed so you don't slip off the side like you used to, if you land a bit wrong.
He did a jump from 100,000 feet, 102,000 to be precise, and he did it to test high altitude systems for military pilots in the new range of aircraft that were going up to 80,000 feet or so.
It's hundreds of feet high.
This is Morocco last year in the Atlas mountains, training in preparation for some high altitude jumps.
LB: Well, it is exactly the combination of the short incubation period and the high transmissibility.
But now surround it with a high concentration of an alcohol, like the ethanol or isopropanol found in most hand-sanitizers.
This means that under the high levels of stress hormones that are experienced during trauma, we are not storing the details, the specific details of what, where and when.
So if you have a schedule, a [cyclic exit strategy] you can restrict the amount, or you can plan the work where you need to be together in a very effective way with avoiding a lot of time lost, if the person's work can be more effective at home and more effective at work and get high productivity.
Maybe it's even something you can consider after the epidemic, because productivity can be at least as high.
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