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It doesn't give us observations of the variation at the annual or seasonal scale, that we know matters.
This kind of a sequence is said to have a very low entropy because there's no variation at all.
And if you do that, you find a certain amount of genetic variation in Africa.
And if you look outside Africa, you actually find less genetic variation.
Yet the people inside Africa have more genetic variation.
But if you look in Africa, there is a component of the genetic variation that has no close relatives outside.
So a model to explain this is that a part of the African variation, but not all of it, [has] gone out and colonized the rest of the world.
Maybe there's variation in the population.
These aren't schizophrenic individuals, but they do show some population variation.
If you look at the maximum stress value for each of these fibers, you can see that there's a lot of variation, and in fact dragline, or major ampullate silk, is the strongest of these fibers.
There's quite a bit of variation within the fibers that an individual spider can make.
But how about variation among spider species, so looking at one type of silk and looking at different species of spiders?
Another little variation.
The most important health challenges today are not caused by simple mutations in our genome, but rather result from a complex and dynamic interplay between genetic variation, diet, microbes and parasites and our immune response.
There's an enormous amount of anatomical variation.
And I think we see this tremendous variation because it's a really effective solution to a very basic biological problem, and that is getting sperm in a position to meet up with eggs and form zygotes. Now the penis isn't actually required for internal fertiliztion, but when internal fertilization evolves, penises often follow.
And so this microbial diversity differs between people, and what people have been thinking about in the last 10, maybe 15 years is, maybe these microbes, this microbial cloud in and on us, and the variation between us, may be responsible for some of the health and illness differences between us.
So among and within bats is a huge variation in their ability to use sensory perception.
And one of the grand challenges right now in modern molecular medicine is to work out whether this variation makes you more susceptible to diseases, or does this variation just make you different?
What does this variation actually mean?
It sieves out the bad variation.
Spending per student only explains about, well, less than 20 percent of the performance variation among countries, and Luxembourg, for example, the most expensive system, doesn't do particularly well.
You've seen Finland doing so well on PISA, but what makes Finland so impressive is that only five percent of the performance variation amongst students lies between schools.
So what you're getting is the capability now of replacing one gene with another variation of that gene.
The important piece here is that as you begin to look at people who have these disorders, the one in five of us who struggle in some way, you find that there's a lot of variation in the way that the brain is wired, but there are some predictable patterns, and those patterns are risk factors for developing one of these disorders.
It's because there's so much variation in the teaching profession.
Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.
In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.
When we started doing our research at BCG, we decided not to look so much at the costs, but to look at the quality instead, and in the research, one of the things that fascinated us was the variation we saw.
We can go to one of the smallest tropical countries, Panama, and see also a huge range of carbon variation, from high in red to low in blue.
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