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"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
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"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."

"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."

"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"

"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."

"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."

"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles."

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."

"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."

"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
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"The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted."

"Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals."

"To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life."

"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."

"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection."
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