The nature of interaction between early humans and these sister species has been a long standing source of controversy, the question being whether humans replaced these earlier species or whether they were in fact similar enough to interbreed, in which case these earlier populations may have contributed genetic material to modern humans.

At about the same time, Frédéric Sauvage and John Ericsson applied for patents on vaguely similar, although less efficient shortened-screw propellers, leading to an apparently permanent controversy as to who the official inventor is among those three men.

He took a decided view on the Pelagian controversy, confirming the decisions of the synod of the province of proconsular Africa, held in Carthage in 416, which had been sent to him, and also writing in the same year in a similar sense to the fathers of the Numidian synod of Mileve who had addressed him ( Augustine of Hippo among them ).

Brown's nearly six-year tenure attracted the most controversy, thanks to her high profile ( a marked contrast to that of the retiring Shawn ) and the changes which she made to a magazine that had retained a similar look and feel for the previous half century.

Other similar works are his treatise in four books against the Manichaeans and Paulicians, and his controversy with the Latins on the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

Before 2001, when Gruyère gained Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée ( AOC ) status as a Swiss cheese, some controversy existed whether French cheeses of a similar nature could also be labeled Gruyère ( French Gruyère style cheeses include Comté and Beaufort ).

The controversy concerned their different reactions to the opinions of Mme Guyon: her ideas were similar to the Quietism of Molinos, which was condemned by Innocent XI in 1687.

Wal-Mart created a controversy in 2006 when DVD shoppers were directed from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Planet of the Apes to the " similar item " Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

That controversy, as well as similar conflicts in nearby port towns like Rockport, led to the Supreme Court case Vietnamese Fishermen's Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and also served as the basis for the 1985 Ed Harris film Alamo Bay.

Critics predicted that the breed would develop back, hip and leg problems similar to those that plague some Dachshunds. Amidst much controversy, TICA accepted the Munchkin into its New Breed development program in September 1994.

In 1999, candidates stood for the board on platform similar to ' carpet bagging ' attempts with mutual building societies ; whilst this was roundly defeated, controversy over its cash reserves remained.

Heine on his sickbed, 1851It was probably a similar fatalism that led Meyerbeer never to enter public controversy with those who slighted him, either professionally or personally, although he occasionally displayed his grudges in his Diaries ; for example, on hearing Robert Schumann conduct in 1850: ' I saw for the first time the man who, as a critic, has persecuted me for twelve years with a deadly enmity.

This type of constitutional controversy is similar to one that occurred under President Andrew Johnson with the Tenure of Office Act ( 1867 ).

( Though the film is a story of the replacement players, the Falco-Martel QB controversy is quite similar to the one experienced by the post-strike Redskins between Doug Williams and Jay Schroeder.

A similar controversy surrounds a purported 1855 letter from Si ’ ahl to President Franklin Pierce, which has never been located and, based on internal evidence, is considered by some historians as " an unhistorical artifact of someone's fertile literary imagination ".

Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have come to symbolize conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising from the controversy as to the respective merits of " faith " and " good works.

Furthermore, in the frame of the controversy around Jansenius ' Augustinus, during which the Jesuits attacked the Jansenists claiming they were heretics similar to Calvinists, Arnauld wrote in defense the Théologie morale des Jésuites ( Moral Theology of Jesuits ), which would put the base of most of the arguments later used by Pascal in his Provincial Letters denouncing the " relaxed moral " of Jesuit casuistry.

The New York Times reported on similar statements previously, writing that " The nation's ( Japan's ) largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, applauded the revisions " regarding removing the word " forcibly " from referring to laborers brought to Japan in the prewar period and revising the comfort women controversy.

Eight years later a similar image featuring in the billboard of another film, French movie The Players ( Les infidèles ), triggered a similar controversy.

While similar comments had been made in other media, Maher's comments became a major controversy.

The methodologies which underlie the hockey stick graph, as well as numerous papers with similar results, became the focus of controversy.

When Bongo won the second presidential elections held in 1998, similar controversy raged over his victory.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazis adopted salutes which were similar in form, resulting in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States.

He reminded Matsuo of a similar thing he had witnessed in China.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

Often these listeners would refer Sandburg to persons who had similar ballads or ditties.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.

First of all, as we had surmised, the highly compulsive children in the structured setting score significantly better ( Af ) on achievement than do similar children in the unstructured schools.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

Or am I taking something that could really apply to almost anybody, and forgetting that many other people probably have had a similar experience ''??

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

The Angels in turn would exercise similar restraints in respect for the natural preferences and natures of the Earthmen -- but they had no faintest notion of man's perverse habit of passing and enforcing laws which were contrary to his own preferences and violations of his nature.

On the one hand, it had a large region ( largely east of the Urals ) of highly distinct, pre-industrial, often non-literate peoples, similar to the situation in the Americas.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

The first major groups of amphibians developed in the Devonian period from lobe-finned fish similar to the modern coelacanth and lungfish, which had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.

It had four sturdy limbs, a neck, a tail with fins and a skull very similar to the lobe-finned fish, Eusthenopteron.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.

Lucian of Antioch had contended for a christology very similar to what would later be known as Arianism and is thought to have influenced its development.

In 1835 the steamer " Tigris " of the English Euphrates expedition went down in a hurricane just above Anah, near where Julian's force had suffered from a similar storm.

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

Initially, she encountered similar problems as she had experienced at Blake Hall.

The ULA had an issue similar to those experienced by other socketed CPU's ; Over time, the thermal heating and cooling could cause the ULA to rise slightly out of it's socket just enough to cause the machine to start exhibiting ' hanging ' or other startup-failure issues, such as a continuous ' startup beep '.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

The New England colonies were extremely similar in their dietary habits to those that many of them had brought from England.