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- noun Plural form of
trait .
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Examples
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That means, first, selection pressure for convergence on certain traits is weakened, which might in itself be a source of variety.
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When times are tough, the attractiveness of success traits is even more pronounced.
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Each process leaves the product with certain traits as distinctive as fingerprints.
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I was born with certain traits: an overwhelming imagination (just ask my mother about my litany of childhood fears), an over-ripe emotional life, an appetite for language ...
Patricia Zohn: Off the C(H)uff: Zoe Kazan, an Angel in America Patricia Zohn 2010
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The trolls all have four main traits: misogyny, classism, racism and anti-intellectualism.
Think Progress » Pawlenty completes global warming flip-flop, calls cap and trade a ‘disaster.’ 2010
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That Darwin apparently had some idea of free-riding traits is not something they deny in the article, nor (apparently) the book.
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Even though A and Z are connected by direct descent, A likely lacks certain traits that Z has and vice versa.
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The trolls all have four main traits: misogyny, classism, racism and anti-intellectualism.
Think Progress » Pawlenty completes global warming flip-flop, calls cap and trade a ‘disaster.’ 2010
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Clades are found using multiple (sometimes hundreds) of traits from a number of species (or specimens) and analysing them statistically to find the most likely phylogenetic tree for the group.
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I guess five main traits if you also include homophobia.
Think Progress » Pawlenty completes global warming flip-flop, calls cap and trade a ‘disaster.’ 2010
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