- n. Plural form of population. “A major thrust of my research
program has been to understand how genetic variation within
populations translates into variation between populations and
species, and to determine the impact of natural selection on
this process.” “And the specter of 2005 riots that spread
through poor housing projects nationwide with disenfranchised
immigrant populations is never far away.” “Life and living of
over 300 million in populations involves activity that more
often than not requires medical care and attention that
constitutes currently about 16% of the economy, much of it in
interstate commerce and/or intrastate affecting interstate
commerce.” ““Dozens of genes associated with almost every
imaginable trait” says nothing about distribution over
populations, about how to define subgroups within populations,
about whether there are firm connections between particular
genes and particular subgroups.” “I also suspect that this is
the reason that we see clusters of extreme intellectual abili