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 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.

Some, mainly utility, bicycles use hub gears with between 3 and 14 ratios, but most use the generally more efficient dérailleur system, by which the chain is moved between different cogs called chainrings and sprockets in order to select a ratio.

Some people who are in a relationship but want to hide homosexual or heterosexual activity from their partner, may solicit consensual sexual activity with others through personal contacts, online chat rooms, or, advertising in select media.

Some civil law jurisdictions do, however, have arbitration panels with non-legally trained members decide cases in select subject-matter areas relevant to the arbitration panel members ' areas of expertise.

Some late versions of the DR-DOS IBMBIO. COM provide a pre-boot config structure, holding bit flags to select ( beside others ) between various drive letter assignment strategies.

Some features have been borrowed from desktop environments, most prominently the technique of " clicking and dragging " to select all units under a given area.

Some of the NSC activities were taken up by a smaller, more select body called the Standing Group.

Some of these quilts were created by professional quilters, and patrons could commission quilts made of new blocks, or select blocks that were already available for sale.

Some other mechanism ( possibly involving more semaphores ) may be required to select a particular free resource.

Some vendors recommend dowsing to select a remedy.

Some schools also allow grade 11 ( Juniors ) to hold a prom, and select high schools even hold proms for Freshmen and Sophomores.

Some model of flashlight include an acceleration sensor to allow it to respond to shaking, or to select modes based on direction the light is held at switch on.

Some manufacturers such as Takeuchi have switches that allow the operator to select which control configuration to use.

Some slaves require the falling edge ( high → low transition ) of the chip select to initiate an action such as the Maxim MAX1242 ADC, which starts conversion on said transition.

Some newspaper copy editors select stories from wire service copy ; others use desktop publishing software to do design and layout work that once was the province of design and production specialists.

Some committees are select committees, authorized to only function for a set number of years before being brought up for review.

Some concern for a select few individual ingredients found in mascara since they have been found to cause cancer in mice, and others are known to be highly toxic to the human body or volatile.

Some games require no setup beyond a way to randomly select the roles ; however, some party hosts like to develop an elaborate menu and decorate extensively.

Some performers select monologues, others may adopt the roles of several characters, changing their tone of voice, manner of speaking, and bodily position to indicate a change in character.

Some New Orleans krewes select their monarchs via king cake.

Some minor parties also select their nominees by convention, including the Green Party, Socialist Party USA, Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and Reform Party USA.

Some virtual machines support a general purpose permutation primitive, " PICK ," which allows one to select arbitrarily any item in the data stack for duplication.

Some centers use the Milan criteria to select patients with liver cancers for liver transplantation.

Some select committees went on to become permanent standing committees.

Some transmissions do not allow the driver to arbitrarily select any gear.