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To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
In Figure 1a, the relative enrichment is indicated by blue numbers for total flagged genes and by red and green numbers for over- and underexpressed genes, respectively.
Census population numbers are useful as a denominator for cancer, birth defects, and other registry data, where the expected number of cases can be accurately estimated based on the underlying population.
Still, French words in vast numbers, both of the law and of common speech, continued to be embraced by English and, by 1800, the law itself joined that embrace, retaining French and Latin only for technical terms.
Furthermore, the dramatic decline in the numbers of bison occurs long before humans arrive on the scene, scuppering the idea that hunting pressure was primarily responsible for the demise of the bison.