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He contributed descriptions of new species of birds and synoptical reviews of various bird families to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science.
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The 1986 publication of the Meese Report contained graphic descriptions of the film's sex scenes and uncensored excerpts of dialogue, which may have contributed to the report becoming a best-seller.
This was important because it provided easily recognized land descriptions, which in turn contributed enormously to the orderly and largely peaceful occupation of the land.
Angas published several books on Australia and Polynesia as well as illustrating accounts of exploration by John McDouall Stuart and John Forrest, and contributed significantly to conchology with his descriptions and illustrations.
Writing the review for The Boston Globe, Marjory Adams thought Thrilling Cities to have " an acid gaiety in its descriptions ", which contributed to her overall summary of the book: " it is fun!
He provided illustrations and descriptions for nomenclature types for 350 plants, and his material contributed to the later development of the binomial scientific classification by Linnaeus.
* The primary reasons for acquisition and descriptions of factors that contributed to recognition of goodwill.
Players have contributed icons and hero descriptions and created the artwork displayed while the map loads, and suggestions for changes to existing heroes or items are taken seriously ; IceFrog once changed a new hero less than two weeks after the new version of the map was released.
Some of the maps of other sites as well as their descriptions were contributed by Atwater ’ s acquaintances.
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Trevelyan contributed considerable new knowledge of the issues connected with his subject.
While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.
More recently, bicycle technology has in turn contributed ideas in both old and new areas.
Decades of civil war during the 1st century BC had contributed greatly to the demise of the old aristocracy of Rome, which a new Italian nobility gradually replaced in prominence during the early part of the 1st century.
By 1910 new smaller Danish companies began joining the business, and besides making more films about the white slave trade, they contributed other new subjects.
Civil wars, decreasing investments in maintenance and acquisition of new scrolls and generally declining interest in non-religious pursuits likely contributed to a reduction in the body of material available in the Library, especially in the fourth century.
Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.
The new administrative system of the themes, or military provinces created by the Byzantine Empire, contributed to the eventual rise of feudalism in Albania, as peasant soldiers who served military lords became serfs on their landed estates.
The Fall of Constantinople and the death of the last Greek Orthodox Christian emperor contributed to this new idea of Moscow as ' New Rome ' and the seat of Orthodox Christianity.
In 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists, and in 1845 he contributed a cartoon, An Allegory of Justice, to a competition for designs for the mural decoration of the new Palace of Westminster.
The failure of his followers to meet his high standard may have contributed to demise of Modernism and the rise of new competing design theories following his death.
In this new industrial spirit, Le Corbusier contributed to a new journal called L ' Esprit Nouveau that advocated the use of modern industrial techniques and strategies to transform society into a more efficient environment with a higher standard of living on all socioeconomic levels.
The study of bog bodies, including these found in Lindow Moss, have contributed to a wider understanding of well-preserved human remains, helping to develop new methods in analysis and investigation.
The spread of advanced human hunters through northern Eurasia and the Americas around the time of the extinctions was a new development, and thus might have contributed significantly.
Mecklenburg contributed about two-thirds of the geographical size of the new state and the majority of its population.
Although San Francisco was the centre of American psychedelic music scene, many other American cities contributed significantly to the new genre.
The discovery of new gold mines near the city, at Asyla, contributed to the wealth of the kingdom and Philip established a mint there.
Young's new insights were prominent in the long article " Egypt " that he contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1819.
After the 16th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European seafarers significantly contributed to the world's population growth.
Paalen contributed Fumage and Onslow Ford Coulage as new pictorial automatic techniques.
The following new ideas contributed to what is called the scientific revolution:
Several new solo works have been featured in television programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The L Word and Girlfriends, and he contributed " Au Revoir Emmanuelle " to a compilation entitled Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.
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His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
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.
With its increasing rarity, specimens of the Great Auk and its eggs became collectible and highly prized by rich Europeans, and the loss of a large number of its eggs to collection contributed to the demise of the species.
Introduced fish species such as Carp, Gambusia, weather loach, redfin perch and brown trout and rainbow trout have also had serious negative effects on native fish, while Carp have contributed to environmental degradation of the Murray River and tributaries by destroying aquatic plants and permanently raising turbidity.
Zebu cattle are thought to be derived from Asian aurochs, sometimes regarded as a subspecies, Bos primigenius namadicus Another wild cattle species, the gaur ( Bos gaurus ) may also have contributed to their development.
Cutting green trees for fuelwood has contributed to the decline of this species, and illegal harvesting of green trees from public lands is a continuing problem.
Thus, aboriginal hunting of both species may have contributed to the sea cow's disappearance from continental shorelines.
The hunting of seabirds and the collecting of seabird eggs have contributed to the declines of many species, and the extinction of several, including the Great Auk and the Spectacled Cormorant.
On the one hand, production of palm wine may have contributed to the endangered status of some palm species such as the Chilean wine palm ( Jubaea chilensis ).
Raphael suggested it was a widespread practice that a female of the same species be part of childbirth, and in human societies this was traditionally a role occupied by a family member or friend whose presence contributed to successful long-term breastfeeding.
Agricultural development has reduced this habitat, and has thus contributed to the decline of the species.
The concern stems from estimates suggesting that up to 50 % of all species on the planet will disappear within the next 50 years, which has contributed to poverty, starvation, and will reset the course of evolution on this planet.
Loss of habitat, especially as the result of wars, such as the Vietnam War, in Southeast Asia, has also contributed to the species ' decline and hindered recovery.
The incident contributed to the Wildlife Conservation Society's decision to redesign the zoo to emphasize species more appropriate to its small size and to visitor interactions.
As with any introduced species, the introduction of feral animals or plants to non-native regions may disrupt ecosystems and has, in some cases, contributed to extinction of indigenous species.
He had been nominated to the Linnean Society of London ; had contributed to Dickson's Fasciculi ; was acknowledged in a number of other works ; and had had a species of algae, Conferva brownii ( now Aegagropila linnaei ) named after him by Lewis Weston Dillwyn.
That changed when, in 1892, Baker contributed the first species accepted into the genus from Madagascar.
it is argued that rarity value ( as they baptize scarcity value ) may have contributed to the extinction of wild-life species or to the destruction of rare biological systems.
The genome sequences obtained for the different Candida species along with those of nonpathogenic hemiascomycetes provide a wealth of knowledge on the evolutionary processes that shaped the hemiascomycete group, as well as those that may have contributed to the success of different Candida species as pathogens.
His attention was directed especially to fossil corals, and in 1863 he contributed to the Geological Society of London the first of a series of papers on the fossil corals of the West Indies in which he not only described the species, but discussed their bearings on the physical geography of the Tertiary period.
He significantly contributed to European knowledge on Central Asia and was the first known European to describe the only extant species of wild horse, which is named after him.
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