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  • 1Life expectancy — This article is about the measure of remaining life. For the Dean Koontz novel, see Life Expectancy (novel). For List of countries by life expectancy, see List of countries by life expectancy. Life expectancy is the expected (in the statistical… …

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  • 2aggressive behaviour — Any action of an animal intended to injure an opponent or prey animal or to cause an opponent to retreat. Aggression may be caused by various stimuli. Within its own group, an animal must display aggressive postures to maintain its position… …

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  • 3Proto-Australoid — The Proto Australoids were a hypothetical ancient hunter gatherer people descended from the first major wave of modern humans to leave Africa 100,000 years ago. Characterised by gracile body types, they are thought to have had dark skin colour… …

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  • 4frequency theory of probability — The view developed by Richard von Mises (1883–1953), in his Probability, Statistics, and Truth (1957; 1st German edn., 1928) that the probability of an event in a situation can be defined in terms of the frequency of occurrence of events of the… …

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  • 5Biased sample — A biased sample is a statistical sample of a population in which some members of the population are less likely to be included than others. If the bias makes estimation of population parameters impossible, the sample is a non probability… …

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  • 6Sampling bias — In statistics, sampling bias is when a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others. It results in a biased sample, a non random sample[1] of a population (or non human… …

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  • 7Fitness (biology) — Fitness (often denoted w in population genetics models) is a central idea in evolutionary theory. It can be defined either with respect to a genotype or to a phenotype. In either case, it describes the ability to both survive and reproduce, and… …

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  • 8Biological exponential growth — When the resources availability is unlimited in the habitat, the population of an organism living in the habitat grows in an exponential or geometric fashion.Resource availability is obviously essential for the unimpeded growth of a… …

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  • 9Punctuated equilibrium — is a theory of evolutionary biology which states that most sexually reproducing populations experience little change for most of their geological history, and that when phenotypic evolution does occur, it is localized in rare, rapid events of… …

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  • 10Minor planet — Not to be confused with Dwarf planet. A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor a comet, and thus includes the dwarf planets. The orbital categories of minor planets are the… …

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