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Variability

noun

The quality of being subject to variation. Synonyms: variableness, variance.

The quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity. Synonym: unevenness.

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"Variability" Quotes from Famous Books

... naturally infer, of great importance to that species, should be eminently liable to variation; but, on our view, this part has undergone, since the several species branched off from a common progenitor, an unusual amount of variability and modification, and therefore we might expect the part generally to be still variable. But a part may be developed in the most unusual manner, like the wing of a bat, and yet not be more variable than any other structure, ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various

... the unity of the Negritos and the Papuans they recognized that the Papuans were diversified and presented a variety of types, but Meyer regards this not as pointing to a crossing of different elements but as revealing simply the variability of the race. He continues (p. 80): "As the external habitus of the Negritos must be declared as almost identical with that of the Papuans, differences in form of the skull, the size of the body, and such like have the less ...

— Negritos of Zambales • William Allan Reed

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