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Although these observations remained largely unnoticed by evolutionary biologists investigating the evolution of gene duplications, such short-term advantage is crucial to the long-term fate of a duplication as group selection favoring a duplication because of its long-term advantage cannot overcome the individual selection that depends exclusively on short-term effects [ 20].
One crucial ingredient in all of today's explanations of the sell-off (and we are now entering the putatively substantive part of the column, so watch your heads) was, of course, "interest-rate concerns."
can be mistaken for a fungus, so DNA profiling of isolates is crucial if species and strains of species are to be identified correctly so that action appropriate to each infection can be taken.
Presidents get into the most trouble not when they behave like intellectuals but when they delegate crucial brainwork to "intellectuals on tap," as Brookhiser calls them.
David Plotz replies: I agree with Esther Pollard on one crucial point: The fact that the most damning allegations against her husband were never made publicly--though Pollard himself did see them--has muddied his case.