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 literary theorists, relying less on the opposition of prose and poetry, focused on the poet as simply one who creates using language, and poetry as what the poet creates.

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 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.

Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.

Some, such as Francis Crick in 1994, have attempted a " scientific search for the soul ".

Some scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.

Some scientific anti-realists argue further, however, and deny that unobservables exist even as non-truth conditioned instruments.

Some reports and scientific studies affirm that ritualized use of ayahuasca may improve mental and physical health.

Some results of Steiner's research have been investigated and supported by scientists working to further and extend scientific observation in directions suggested by an anthroposophical approach.

Some Old Breton vocabulary remains in the present day as philosophical and scientific terms in Modern Breton.

Some classic examples of these types of tasks are multimedia applications ( images, video, and sound ), as well as many types of scientific and engineering tasks.

Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation.

Some psychiatrists also argue that current diagnostic standards rely on an exaggerated interpretation of neurophysiological findings and so understate the scientific importance of social-psychological variables.

Some examples include: to develop reasoning about perennial questions, to master the methods of scientific inquiry, to cultivate the intellect, to create positive change agents, or simply to teach pupils how to think.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

Some critics, such as Jerry Coyne ( professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago ) and Eugenie Scott ( a physical anthropologist and executive director of the National Center for Science Education ) have argued that the concept of irreducible complexity, and more generally, intelligent design is not falsifiable, and therefore, not scientific.

Some have taken it to be whatever exists, some to be whatever is or can be the object of scientific inquiry.

Some authors claim ( or at least presuppose ) that taxa are real entities, that to say that an animal is included in Mammalia ( the scientific name for the mammal group ) is to say that it bears a certain relation to Mammalia, an abstract object.

Some scientific materialists have been criticized, for example by Noam Chomsky, for failing to provide clear definitions for what constitutes matter, leaving the term ' materialism ' without any definite meaning.

Some modern day physicists and science writers such as Paul Davies and John Gribbin have argued that scientific finds in physics such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory have disproven materialism.

Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.

Some are magical in nature and others are scientific ; some are inhabited and others are not.

Some scientific journals have begun to set detailed standards for what types of image processing are allowed in research results.

Some examples of this in present day are statistics including, but not limited to, the racial breakdown of the prison population versus the national population, physical abilities and mental ability statistics, and other data gathered by scientific groups.

Some RS-232 devices are still found, especially in industrial machines or scientific instruments.

Some parapsychologists have attempted to establish by scientific experiment whether a soul separate from the brain, as more commonly defined in religion rather than as a synonym of psyche or mind, exists.

Some articles published before 1977 used the term signal transmission or sensory transduction for signal transduction: a total of 48, 377 scientific papers related to signal transduction were published in 1977, of which 11, 211 were reviews of other papers.

Some philosophic and psychological teachings within Buddhism share commonalities with modern Western scientific and philosophic thought.