Their distinctive traits - segmentation, mobility, egalitarian social structures, flexible cultivation - are simply a response to their new environment and 'a strategic adaptation to avoid incorporation in state structures'.

Either leave one's distinctive traits behind, thus becoming inconspicuous, or masquerade as something or someone else.

The authors established some distinctive traits, all present in the cervical vertebrae.

If so, several additional distinctive traits can be observed in other parts of the skeleton.

Memories are encoded based on distinctive traits of what has happened; however, without proper encoding of a memory, the event will not be remembered in any great detail.