Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early Christians found themselves confronted with a set of new concepts and ideas relating to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well the notions of salvation and redemption, and had to use a new set of terms, images and ideas to deal with them.

* Early ideas in the history of quantum chemistry

Early support for Darwin's ideas came from the findings of field naturalists studying biogeography and ecology, including Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860, and Asa Gray in 1862.

Early ideas of eugenics posited that human intelligence correlated strongly with social class, but these ideas were rejected, and the idea that genes ( or simply " blood ") determined a person's character became regarded as racist.

Early in following year, while composing Elena da Feltre ( which premiered in January 1839 ), Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the " revolution " begun in his previous opera:

Early in 1983, Hawking approached Simon Mitton, the editor in charge of astronomy books at Cambridge University Press, with his ideas for a popular book on cosmology.

There are also recent signs of the reception of phenomenology ( and Heidegger's thought in particular ) within scholarly circles focused on studying the impetus of metaphysics in the history of ideas in Islam and Early Islamic philosophy ; perhaps under the indirect influence of the tradition of the French Orientalist and philosopher Henri Corbin.

Early issues featured a range of broadly anarchist and ecological ideas, bringing together groups and individuals as varied as Class War, veteran anarchist writer Colin Ward, anarcho-punk band Crass, as well as the Peace Convoy, anti-nuclear campaigners, animal rights activists and so on.

Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American popular culture viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experience of living within that culture.

Early in 1869, Eliot had presented his ideas about reforming American higher education in a compelling two-part article, " The New Education ," in The Atlantic Monthly, the nation's leading journal of opinion.

Early written symbols were based on pictographs ( pictures which resemble what they signify ) and ideograms ( symbols which represent ideas ).

Early in the 15th century the ideas of Humanism in Croatia brought about changes to the world of music.

Since Early Christianity, demonology has developed from a simple acceptance of demons to a complex study that has grown from the original ideas taken from Jewish demonology and Christian scriptures.

Early Ellington hits, such as Black and Tan Fantasy, Doin ' the Voom Voom, East Saint Louis Toodle-oo and Creole Love Call prominently feature Miley's solo work and were thematically inspired by his melodic ideas, which he, in turn, often borrowed from Baptist hymns sung in his church, such as Stephen Adams ' Holy City.

Early in 1930, Evola launched Torre, a bi-weekly review, to voice his conservative-revolutionary ideas and denounce the demagogic tendencies of official fascism ; government censors suppressed the journal and engaged in character assassination against its staff ( for a time, Evola retained a bodyguard of like-minded radical fascists ) until it died out in June of that year.

In Quite Early One Morning there are numerous ideas and characters which would be further developed for Under Milk Wood.

It can be thus understood why during Early Christian times there existed groups of Godfearers, who were gentiles who shared religious ideas with Jews, to one degree or another, but were afraid to circumcise, and were not recognized as Jews.

Early geologists such as Nicolas Steno and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure developed ideas of geological strata forming from water through chemical processes, which Abraham Gottlob Werner developed into a theory known as Neptunism.

Early story ideas were similar to the novella Heart of Darkness.

Early twentieth-century biologists like Ernst Haeckel viewed embryology as a recapitulation of evolution, which implies a kind of organising memory, and a few modern biologists, such as Rupert Sheldrake, influenced by Jungian ideas and by vitalism, have posited organising fields of life consisting of memories and drives.

Early ideas appeared in the 1902 book Altneuland by Theodore Herzl in which he talked about utilizing the sources of the Jordan River for irrigation purposes and channeling sea water for producing electricity from the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa through the Beit She ' an and Jordan valleys to a canal which ran parallel to the Jordan River and the Dead Sea.

Early research on bainite found that at a given temperature only a certain volume fraction of the austenite would transform to bainite with the remainder decomposing to pearlite after an extended delay.

Early diagnosis is important because the late effects of iron accumulation can be wholly prevented by periodic phlebotomies ( by venesection ) comparable in volume to blood donations.

Early treatment with ECPs containing only the progestin levonorgestrel has been show to impair the ovulatory process and luteal function .< sup > 83 – 87 </ sup > p.

Early views on the function of the brain regarded it to be a " cranial stuffing " of sorts.

Early PLCs, up to the mid-1980s, were programmed using proprietary programming panels or special-purpose programming terminals, which often had dedicated function keys representing the various logical elements of PLC programs.

Early nutritional support: In one cohort study of 490 premature infants discharged from the NICU, the rate of growth during hospital stay was related to neurological function at 18 and 22 months of age.

Early wind pumps directly operated the pump shaft from a crank attached to the rotor of the windmill ; the installation of back gearing between wind rotor and pump crank allowed the pump to function at lower wind speeds.

Early work in aphasiology also benefited from the early twentieth-century work of Korbinian Brodmann, who " mapped " the surface of the brain, dividing it up into numbered areas based on each area's cytoarchitecture ( cell structure ) and function ; these areas, known as Brodmann areas, are still widely used in neuroscience today.

Early results indicate the approach may maintain the fetal muscular and sensory function still present at the time of fetal surgery, regardless of lesion height.

Early Electronic Cash Registers ( ECR ) were controlled with proprietary software and were very limited in function and communications capability.

Early field testing connected the circuit to a thyratron trigger operating a tower-mounted camera which photographed passing aircraft to determine distance of fuze function.

The manner in which Early approached his portfolio and increasingly high-profile nature of the job have lead many to state that Early is the first true White House Press Secretary, both in function and in formal title.

Early health investigations including liver function, immune function, neurologic impairment, and reproductive effects yielded inconclusive results.

* Apple Macintosh: Early Mac OS supported system extensions known generally as FKEYS which could be installed in the System file and could be accessed with a Command-Shift -( number ) keystroke combination ( Command-Shift-3 was the screen capture function included with the system, and was installed as an FKEY ); however, early Macintosh keyboards did not support numbered function keys in the normal sense.

Early interest in the relationship between brain function and social cognition includes the case of Phineas Gage, whose behaviour was reported to have changed after an accident damaged one or both of his frontal lobes.

Early select committees were very fluid, serving their established function and then going out of existence.

Early models stored programs in EPROM and were limited to a single function with a small realtime executive.

Early electric key fobs operated using infrared and required a clear line-of-sight to function.

Early attempts in the 1950s and 1960s involved constructing a tube of non-erectile flesh extending a small penis but the penis did not function.

Some verbs ceased to function as modals during the Early Modern period.

Most herbivorous dinosaurs had, by the Early Cretaceous, become sufficiently specialized that the front teeth had been altogether lost ( although there is some debate as to whether these teeth may have had a specialized function in Hypsilophodon ).

While Panofsky's claim that the painting formed a kind of certificate of marriage is not accepted by all subsequent writers, his analysis of the symbolic function of the details is broadly agreed, and has been applied to many other Early Netherlandish paintings, especially a number of depictions of the Annunciation set in richly detailed interiors, a tradition for which the Arnolfini Portrait and the Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin represent the start ( in terms of surviving works at least ).

Early roundhouses were too small for later locomotives: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London was built in 1847, but was too small for its function within 20 years ( it is now an arts centre ).