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If selection consisted merely in separating some very distinct variety, and breeding from it, the principle would be so obvious as hardly to be worth notice; but its importance consists in the great effect produced by the accumulation in one direction, during successive generations, of differences absolutely inappreciable by an uneducated eye--differences which I for one have vainly attempted to appreciate.

See how different the leaves of the cabbage are, and how extremely alike the flowers; how unlike the flowers of the heartsease are, and how alike the leaves; how much the fruit of the different kinds of gooseberries differ in size, colour, shape, and hairiness, and yet the flowers present very slight differences.

We can, I think, further understand the frequently abnormal character of our domestic races, and likewise their differences being so great in external characters and relatively so slight in internal parts or organs.

Nor must the value which would formerly be set on any slight differences in the individuals of the same species, be judged of by the value which would now be set on them, after several breeds have once fairly been established.

A high degree of variability is obviously favourable, as freely giving the materials for selection to work on; not that mere individual differences are not amply sufficient, with extreme care, to allow of the accumulation of a large amount of modification in almost any desired direction.

Bakewell's flock, and yet the difference between the sheep possessed by these two gentlemen is so great that they have the appearance of being quite different varieties.

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If, then, there is to be some standing difference between the person who can remember a certain fact and the person who cannot, that standing difference must be, not in anything mental, but in the brain.

Whenever the effect resulting from a stimulus to an organism differs according to the past history of the organism, without our being able actually to detect any relevant difference in its present structure, we will speak of "mnemic causation," provided we can discover laws embodying the influence of the past.

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The difference in that respect of Richmond and London was enough to make the whole difference of seeing him always and seeing him never.

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Differences, if present, may reveal something about the nature of fathers and the special contributions they may make in the child-rearing process.

Fathers' speech to their children: perfect pitch or tin ear?

It makes sense, then, to analyze the relative cost differences between two arrays, where one consists of a RAID-5 configuration using 36GB l5Krpm drives where the stripe width is limited to a maximum of 14 drives (13+1) and the other array consists of a RAID-1+0 configuration using 146GB 10Krpm drives with the mirror limited to a maximum of 14 drives.

Cost-optimizing RAID systems: comparing the availability, performance and cost of 36GB-drive striped parity (RAID-5) to 146GB-drive mirrored arrays

Teaching how Differences are 'Organized' via Institutional Privilege [left and right arrow] Oppression," by Erika Kirby explores the ways she encourages "students to recognize how differences based on social identity (social identity differences: SIDs) are often organized in ways that are oppressive to some and to be reflective about their privilege in order to transform the ways they think about and act upon difference" (p.

Mumby, Dennis K. (Ed.): Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Re-search, Pedagogy, Practice

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