Some articles on traits, trait:
... Defining cranial traits of this genus include low, broad zygomatics, straight alveolar process and large maxillary sinus ... Defining dental traits include three-rooted premolars, thick enamel and bunodont cusps ... Because of this mixture of primitive and derived traits in the KNM-SH 8531 specimen, it has been proposed that Samburupithecus lived before the gorilla-chimpanzee-hominin split and, therefore, that it is a ...
... child receiving a dominant allele from either parent will have the dominant form of the trait ... and a recessive allele from the other parent will have the dominant form of the trait ... Purely Mendelian traits are a tiny minority of all traits, since most phenotypic traits exhibit incomplete dominance, codominance, and contributions from ...
... Multiple traits are used in this approach to examine (a) similar or (b) dissimilar traits, as to establish convergent and discriminant validity amongst traits ...
... Rather than developing and fading in unison, these traits each operate on a unique evolutionary path and time line ... the subjectivity of individual tastes because it follows the logic that positive traits that appeal to one particular wine taster will continue to persist along the principle's guideline ...
... Androgynous traits are those that either have no gender value or have some aspects generally attributed to the opposite sex ... Physical androgyny (compare intersex), which concerns physical traits, is distinct from behavioral androgyny, which concerns personal and social anomalies in ...
Famous quotes containing the word traits:
“A personality is an indefinite quantum of traits which is subject to constant flux, change, and growth from the birth of the individual in the world to his death. A character, on the other hand, is a fixed and definite quantum of traits which, though it may be interpreted with slight differences from age to age and actor to actor, is nevertheless in its essentials forever fixed.”
—Hubert C. Heffner (1901–1985)
“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (1842–1910)