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The metaphor for organismal evolution that underlies a natural taxonomic system is a strictly bifurcating tree of species.
Secondly, a vast amount of mathematical research and practical experience underlies their interpretation.
It will be important to expand further the number of women studied to determine whether BP1 expression might be one biological factor that underlies survival differences between African American and Caucasian women.
McCain resists the political horse trading that underlies legislating: He has said he has no plans to modify the tobacco bill to get it passed.
And yet this ability to reflect on ourselves underlies art, architecture, poetry, government, journalism, and all the other forms of willed culture and communication that animals don't and can't have.