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Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness?
But these were created by scientists using both selective breeding and genetic technology.
And so one of the things we've been doing is using genetic enhancement, or genetic manipulation, of normal selective breeding pushed a little bit through genetics.
It's a kind of imprinting and selective breeding process for the afterlife.
These laws fly in the face of science, and they are grounded in prejudice and in ignorance and in a rewriting of tradition and a selective reading of religion.
Of course not, you can be selective.
How come, then, it's not so expected to be selective when we go to an art gallery?
Now you might say, well, that's an extremely unusual example, and I wouldn't want to be guilty of the same kind of cherry-picking and selective referencing that I'm accusing other people of.
He has a selective one, though.
So what they're doing is working with seven breeds of primitive, hardy-looking cattle like that Maremmana primitivo on the top there to rebuild, over time, with selective back-breeding, the aurochs.
The sensor would have to be: inexpensive, rapid, simple, sensitive, selective, and minimally invasive.
In 1988, a logging company convinced local residents that there would be absolutely no environmental impact from a new method they were trying called "selective logging," taking out a tree here and there rather than clear-cutting a whole area.
And here's Lincoln Meadow before selective logging.
This is after selective logging.
What you get is a highly selective loss of one function, with other functions being preserved intact, and this gives you some confidence in asserting that that part of the brain is somehow involved in mediating that function.
There are some on the left who think power resides only with corporations, and some on the right who think power resides only with government, each side blinded by their selective outrage.
There are always remnants of the perished ones that are more durable than their fragile bodies and our selective and fading memory of them.
What's important to me about this work is not the particular locations of these brain regions, but the simple fact that we have selective, specific components of mind and brain in the first place.
To reap the selective benefits and work within the constraints of this material, we have really had to push ourselves, and within that constraint, we have found space for something new.
That's actually not surprising, because Kanner's criteria for diagnosing autism were incredibly selective.
Eleven years later, when the political landscape changed, he heard about a highly selective university admissions test.
But about 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began to learn the secrets of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques.
These two major pitfalls, combined with more general dangers, such as conflicts of interest or selective use of data, can make the findings of any particular epidemiological study suspect, and a good study must go out of its way to prove that its authors have taken steps to eliminate these types of errors.
So after a lot of questions about how this could have possibly happened, a selective reduction was mentioned, and while this procedure was not impossible, it posed some unique risks for the healthy twin and for me, so we decided to carry the pregnancy to term.
This trend also caught the attention of a certain Charles Darwin, who wondered if a similar selective breeding process occurred in nature.
And he wasn't selective.
So we developed drugs to more specifically focus on serotonin, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, so the SSRIs, the most famous of which is Prozac.
It's also important to know that phages are extremely selective hunters.
And they've also stayed selective, which today is really a good thing.
But close analysis of the genomes and coat patterns of modern cats tells us that unlike dogs, which have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats.
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