fitness
fitness (in genetics) Symbol
W. A measure of the relative breeding success of an individual or genotype in a given population at a given time. Individuals that contribute the most offspring to the next generation are the fittest. Fitness therefore reflects how well an organism is adapted to its environment, which determines its survival. See also
inclusive fitness;
selection coefficient.
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Sir John Everett Millais' 'Sleeping' set for auction.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/22/1999; 325 words
; ...decades, ahead of its sale next month. Sleeping, by Sir John Everett Millais, is expected to fetch up to pounds 1.5 million...It was unveiled yesterday at Christie's, with Millais' great-great-great- granddaughters, three...
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THE VALE OF REST (1858-9) Sir John Everett Millais Tate Britain
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...clutching her rosary. Suddenly, she turns round with a look of apprehension, anguish, guilt. What on earth is going on? Millais's The Vale of Rest was painted for an audience that liked and expected a picture to have a story. It could be a story taken...
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Timely tome on the towering and thoroughly modern Millais; John Everett Millais: A Biography. By GH Fleming (Constable pounds 20.00) Reviewed by Christine Barker.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/29/1998; 700+ words
; ...of his biography of John Everett Millais - surprisingly the first...son by the diplomat Sir Robert Makins - the...era he spanned, Sir John Everett Millais - an admiring Queen...enlightened. Young John was actually encouraged...
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HUGH MILLAIS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/5/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Intrigued by his Canadian links, Millais joined the Montreal Star while...artists, among whom were Raoul Millais, a specialist at equestrian painting, and Sir John Everett Millais, his great grandfather, a founding...
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Obituary: Raoul Millais
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; RAOUL MILLAIS, the portrait painter, equestrian...countryside and the chase. His grandfather, Sir John Everett Millais, founded, with William Holman Hunt...Raphaelite movement. His father, John Guille (Johnny) Millais, was in his...
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Millais family face to face with the past at Tate
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 9/24/2007; ; 553 words
; ...great, great grandson of artist Sir John Everett Millais took his own four-year-old...his work for 40 years. As Joshua Millais stood in front of one of his ancestor...beautiful and wonderful". Mr Millais, 46, a photographer from Notting...
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THOROUGHLY UNMODERN MILLAIS
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 2/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; WHEN Sir John Everett Millais died in 1896 he was both hailed and...his own childhood. He had a reason. Millais was a child prodigy, a boy of extraordinary...trip to Brig o' Turk in Scotland with John Ruskin (whose portrait Millais was...
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Millais record.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 6/11/1999; 275 words
; ...most popular and successful artists has been sold for more than pounds 2million. Sleeping, by Sir John Everett Millais, was sold by the Millais family and fetched pounds 2,091,500 at Christie's in London last night, a record for the...
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Millais accepted as tax payment.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 8/29/1999; 270 words
; ...pounds 4.2 million in tax. The work, painted by Millais in 1851, was unveiled as Culture Secretary Chris...Henry Moore and Henry Walton under the same scheme. Sir John Everett Millais' Mariana was given to the nation by the executors...
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Millais masterpiece could fetch up to 1.5m pounds
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; THE superb British painter Sir John Everett Millais was the most successful and highest...price ever paid for a painting by Millais at auction when the artist's...offer a magnificent portrait by John Zoffany (1733-1810), which...
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Sir John Everett Millais
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), an English painter of great...amplified by John Guille Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais (2 vols., 1899; 3d ed. 1902). A good general ...
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Millais, Sir John Everett
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Millais, Sir John Everett ( b Southampton, 8 June 1829; d London...stepped in as their champion. (In 1854 Millais married Effie Gray, formerly Ruskin...developed the characters in sequels. Millais lived in some splendour on his huge...
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