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- noun Plural form of
cline .Traits that changes continuously overtime and/orspace ; may refer to alinguistic ,environmental orgeographic change.
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Examples
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They increased altitude to maneuver the first of the basaltic clines and then glided down the other side, skimming the endless primeval forest, its foliage in ever-varied patterns of blue-green, green and green-purple.
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Cavalli-Sforza believe that the features distinguishing many people are better characterized as “clines,” not “races” or “subspecies.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Sotomayor’s Lecture, “A Latina Judge’s Voice”:
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Latitudinal clines – a trade-off between egg number and size in Pacific salmon.
Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations
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Latitudinal clines – a trade-off between egg number and size in Pacific salmon.
Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations
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At most you can talk about clines or some such anthropoligical crap like that.
"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..."
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At most you can talk about clines or some such anthropoligical crap like that.
"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..."
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In truth, there are merely clines of gene frequency.
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NURENBERG: But other tax preparers do and the IRS says it suggested the rule change to make it very clear that clines know it and approve it in advance, even as the IRS removes limits on who can get the information.
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Rosenberg's paper is quite technical, but it shows definitively that both clines and clusters are important.
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Rosenberg's paper is quite technical, but it shows definitively that both clines and clusters are important.
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