Some 20th-century ethnologists, like Julian Steward, have instead argued that such similarities reflected similar adaptations to similar environments ( see cultural evolution ).

Some scholars consciously adopt " Daoism " in order to distinguish the Chinese philosophy and religion from what " Taoism " embodied in the 19th-and 20th-century Western imaginations.

Some 20th-century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social change took place gradually and the term revolution is a misnomer.

Some 20th-century historians have questioned these medieval accounts, claiming that references to St. Valentine are very scanty in old historical records and many of the accounts of the life of the saint appear to have originated with Geoffrey Chaucer.

Some of the organizational management concepts needed to create 20th-century mass production, such as scientific management, had been pioneered by other engineers ( most of whom are not famous, but Frederick Winslow Taylor is one of the well-known ones ), whose work would later be synthesized into fields such as industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations research, and management consultancy.

Some 20th-century blues songs, such as Sold It to the Devil by Black Spider Dumpling ( John D. Twitty ), may be about making a deal with the devil at the crossroads.

Some contemporary critics, particularly Virgil Thomson, also took Toscanini to task for not paying enough attention to the " modern repertoire " ( i. e., 20th-century composers, of which Thomson was one ).

Some 19th-and early 20th-century cultivators produced single gooseberries near to two ounces in weight, but, as with many varieties of fruit, larger sizes of gooseberry proved to have weaker flavour.

Some 20th-century revisionist criticism suggests that the deus ex machina cannot be viewed in these simplified terms and argues rather that the device allows mortals to " probe " their relationship with the divine.

Some of the stained glass windows are 20th-century work by Ninian Comper.

Some early 20th-century Ottoman-area Jewish schools taught ' udand mandoline to girls, and some women learned to play the piano.

Some 20th-century modern artists and architects sought to elevate bodily ornamentation — that is, jewellery — to the level of fine art and original design, rather than mere decoration, craft production of traditional designs, or conventional settings for showing off expensive stones or precious metals.

Some 20th-century select committees are called special committees, such as the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Some 20th-century artists ( including Art Hazelwood, Dusan Kállay, István Orosz, Brian Williams ) made images based on " Das Narrenschiff ", or drew illustrations for contemporary editions of The Ship of Fools.

Some 20th-century scientific testing indicates that all caps text is less legible and less readable than lower-case text.

Some influential 20th-century historians have referred to these men as constituting a " commonwealth party ", but G. R.

Some may wonder why The National World War II Museum is located in New Orleans, a city known for other tourism sites but which is not usually associated with 20th-century military history.

Some 20th-century scholars, including the American etymologist Kemp Malone ( 1889 – 1971 ), have argued that the reason for the differences between Pliny, Tacitus and Ptolemy when it comes to names and tribes is that their informants came from different regions, mainly familiar with the parts of Scandinavia closest to their own location: " The name Scadinavia ( with its variant forms ) reached the classical world through western sources, and [...] Tacitus, whose information about the North came from the east, knows nothing of the name, in contradistinction to Pliny, who got his information from the west.

He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

Some critics however regarded Christie's plotting abilities as considerably exceeding her literary ones.

Some say that literary criticism is a subset of literary theory.

Some consider literary theory merely an aesthetic concern, as articulated, for example, in Joseph Addison's notion of a critic as one who helps understand and interpret literary works: " A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellences than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Some of the films are based on legends such as Atlantis, and on literary works such as Journey to the West and Arabian Nights.

Some librarians certainly at times felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, militated against appreciation of more literary qualities.

Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).

Some scholars have seen Perses as a literary creation, a foil for the moralizing that Hesiod develops in Works and Days, but there are also arguments against this theory.

Some Russian individualists anarchists " found the ultimate expression of their social alienation in violence and crime, others attached themselves to avant-garde literary and artistic circles, but the majority remained " philosophical " anarchists who conducted animated parlor discussions and elaborated their individualist theories in ponderous journals and books.

Some literary and historical records indicate that solo pieces for koto existed centuries before sōkyoku, the music of the solo koto genre, was established.

Some other literary sources provide specific detail: the writings of the physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the Digest and Codex Justinianus on Marcus ' legal work.

Some authors have bent and twisted proverbs, creating anti-proverbs, for a vartiety of literary effects.

Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, described King's work as " non-literature ", and critic Harold Bloom denounced the choice:

Some critics have also tried to apply the theory to individual works, but the effort to find unique structures in individual literary works runs counter to the structuralist program and has an affinity with New Criticism.

Some commonly known examples include set theory and number theory ; however literary theory, critical theory, and music theory are also of the same form.

Some critics were dissatisfied by his choice of poem order and omissions in the book and some feminists argued that Hughes had essentially driven her to suicide and therefore should not be responsible for her literary legacy.

Some art / literary theorists ( Wheeler, 2006 ; Alexander, 2011 ) have proposed alternatives to postmodern understandings of " authorship " using the complexity sciences and emergence theory.

Some authors, such as Harold Robbins, use several literary pseudonyms.

Some literary critics feel that the Snark is within the nonsense tradition of Thomas Hood and, especially, W. S.

Some were published after his death, and they are considered to have been more motivated by a desire to promote his detective agency than a literary endeavour.

Some critics consider literary criticism a practical application of literary theory, because criticism always deals directly with particular literary works, while theory may be more general or abstract.

Some theorists, however, have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions, and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces.

Some theorists argue that Dada was actually the beginning of postmodern art.

Some theorists prefer to stick to Euclidean space and say that there is no dual.

Some historians and political theorists believe that the term feudalism has been deprived of specific meaning by the many ways it has been used, leading them to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.

Some property rights theorists also take a consequentialist view of distributive justice and argue that property rights based justice also has the effect of maximizing the overall wealth of an economic system.

" Some left-wing theorists have tried to shield Marxism from any connection to the Soviet regime.

Some theorists argue that a metaphysical account of morality is necessary for the proper evaluation of actual moral theories and for making practical moral decisions ; others reason from opposite premises and suggest that we must impart ideas of moral intuition onto proper action before we can give a proper account of morality's metaphysics.

Some theorists argue that the common language is not homogenizing ; and that there still remain strong differences expressed within the mass media.

Some Japanese macrobiotic theorists, including George Ohsawa, stress the fact that yin and yang are relative qualities that can only be determined in a comparison.

Some theorists have suggested that metaphors are not merely stylistic, but that they are cognitively important as well.

Some theorists and writers argued that human rights, liberal democracy and capitalist free market economics had become the only remaining ideological alternative for nations in the post – Cold War world.

Some anthropological theorists, however, while finding considerable fault with Lévi-Strauss's version of structuralism, did not turn away from a fundamental structural basis for human culture.

Some theorists propose that memory is unitary over all time scales, from milliseconds to years.

Some continuity theorists point to earlier intellectual revolutions occurring in the Middle Ages, usually referring to either a European " Renaissance of the 12th century " or a medieval " Muslim scientific revolution ", as a sign of continuity.

Some economic theorists consider the concept to be intellectually dishonest since, in reality, money is fungible.

Some theorists take this to mean that God is timeless — categories of past, present, and future just do not apply when we are talking about God.

Some chemical theorists apply statistical mechanics to provide a bridge between the microscopic phenomena of the quantum world and the macroscopic bulk properties of systems.

Some theorists have argued that family tends to be the strongest, most influential force which exists over the lifetime ; one essay has credited the majority of the student activism of the 1930s to the influence of parents.

Some theorists are interested in distinguishing between causal processes and non-causal processes ( Russell 1948 ; Salmon 1984 ).

Some of America's founding fathers are alleged by conspiracy theorists to have been members of this sect.

Some sociologists and theorists of culture have recognized the power of mass communication as a socialization device.

Some Communist states claimed to have abolished capitalism, although some Marxist theorists describe them as state capitalist, rather than anti-capitalist.

Some theorists hold that tribes represent a stage in social evolution intermediate between bands and states.