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  • Deleterious mutations accumulate only if they are introduced faster than they can be eliminated through death (i.e. natural selection).

    A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

  • Deleterious mutations accumulate only if they are introduced faster than they can be eliminated through death (i.e. natural selection).

    A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

  • Ouroboros contributes some thoughtful arguments in Of mice and men: Deleterious psychological effects of CR may be limited to rodents.

    Encephalon 47 Sandra K 2008

  • Ouroboros contributes some thoughtful arguments in Of mice and men: Deleterious psychological effects of CR may be limited to rodents.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Sandra K 2008

  • A large portion of possible mutations are deleterious then we have the Neutral and Nearly Neutral mutations Slightly Deleterious and Slightly Beneficial.

    Behe's bad math - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • From an earlier response of AR#2, these guys might have moved on and now be doing their drinking at or sailing on The Deleterious Procedure or even The Meaningless Reconstruction. bender

    Rejected Nature Correspondence « Climate Audit 2006

  • Lost Lady, and even the Deleterious Drugs 'Control Bill itself, had become secondary factors in the greatest struggle of the day.

    Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

  • But he found nothing but typewritten sheets with headings like, "Chiaroscuro; the Lost Art," or "The Deleterious Effect of the Motion Picture on the Literary Sense."

    Jonathan Stannard's Secret Vice 1915

  • Deleterious was the use of alcohol, the evils of which were so little understood that it was actually prescribed for many disorders of which it is a certain irritant.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • Deleterious poisons are formed and absorbed by the blood from such hardened and irritating lumps in the intestines.

    The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

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