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[Unclear] told us they are always about four percent of the population, but 16 percent are imitators.
One particular thing we might look at, in terms of long-term flows of people, is what percentage of the world's
population
is accounted for by first-generation immigrants?
When you ask people in France what percentage of the French
population
is immigrants, the answer is about 24 percent.
Four hundred years of maturing democracy, colleagues in Parliament who seem to me, as individuals, reasonably impressive, an increasingly educated, energetic, informed population, and yet a deep, deep sense of disappointment.
The first one being women moving into the job market, the second one being the aging world
population.
So there are some pathological liars, but they make up a tiny portion of the
population.
Because they looked at the curve and said, if the
population
keeps growing at this rate, to move the
population
of New York around, they would have needed six million horses, and the manure created by six million horses would be impossible to deal with.
Seventy percent of the
population
didn't want this.
But dengue fever now, according to the World Health Organization, infects between 50 and 100 million people every year, so that's equivalent to the whole of the
population
of the U.K. being infected every year.
Well we clearly need something that is effective at reducing the mosquito
population.
We want something that gets that
population
right the way down so it can't get the disease transmission.
If you put more sterile males out into the environment, then the females are more likely to find a sterile male than a fertile one, and you will bring that
population
down.
In about four months of release, we've brought that
population
of mosquitos — in most cases we're dealing with villages here of about 2,000, 3,000 people, that sort of size, starting small — we've taken that mosquito
population
down by about 85 percent in about four months.
So you take a Google Map, you divide it up, work out how far they can fly, and make sure you're releasing such that you get coverage of the area, and then you go back, and within a very short space of time, you're bringing that
population
right the way down.
For example, the incarceration rate, the prison
population
in this country has quadrupled since 1980.
Well, in order for a clinical trial to generate valid and widely applicable results, they need to be conducted with large numbers of study participants and preferably on a
population
with a high incidence of new HIV infections.
A clinical trial that is considered to be potentially beneficial to the
population
is more likely to be authorized, and in the absence of good health care systems, almost any offer of medical assistance is accepted as better than nothing.
Not by much, as an individual level, but enough at a
population
level to shift the rates of heart disease in a whole
population.
It's why we have a dropout rate of roughly 25 percent overall and almost 50 percent of our minority
population
living in low-income areas, because they're not getting the gift of a good start.
Here's a physical robot that we actually have a
population
of brains, competing, or evolving on the machine.
My mother has an accent that is so different to my father, and we're all a
population
of about 300,000 people in the same country.
So what's the
population
today?
There is growing demand, growing
population.
It didn't change the compositions of its
population.
That was back when the
population
was around 100 million people.
We have a little tiny community called Greenville, Michigan,
population
8,000, and they are about to lose their major employer, which is a refrigerator factory that's operated by Electrolux."
Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.
Why has poverty remained stuck at 12 percent of the U.S.
population
for 40 years?
This one had a malformed lung and died after 10 minutes, but Alberto was confident that cloning has moved along well since then, and this will move ahead, and eventually there will be a
population
of bucardos back in the mountains in northern Spain.
The sequence of events: he'll put together the genomes of the band-tailed pigeon and the passenger pigeon, he'll take the techniques of George Church and get passenger pigeon DNA, the techniques of Robert Lanza and Michael McGrew, get that DNA into chicken gonads, and out of the chicken gonads get passenger pigeon eggs, squabs, and now you're getting a
population
of passenger pigeons.
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