To better reflect the evolution of amateur astronomy, the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference was renamed the RTMC Astronomy Expo in 2003.

The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

In South America, the opossums retained a strong presence, and the Tertiary saw the evolution of shrew opossums ( Paucituberculata ) and metatherian predators such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus.

Subsequent migrations across the mountainous landscape resulted in the geographical isolation of PSS speakers and the evolution of their languages into the eight families of the South Sulawesi language group.

Discoveries of Australopithecine fossils found during the 1920s in South Africa were ignored owing to Piltdown man, and the reconstruction of human evolution was confused for decades.

Its subsequent evolution created seven prototypes-Europe ( isolated from Europe, the Middle East, India and Iran ), NE Africa ( from Northeast Africa ), Africa1 ( from countries in Western Africa and South Africa ), Africa2 ( from South Africa ), Asia2 ( from Northern India and among isolates from Bangladesh, Thailand and Malaysia ), Sahul ( from Australian Aboriginals and Papua New Guineans ) and East Asia with the subpopulations E Asia ( from East Asians ), Maori ( from Taiwanese Aboriginals, Melanesians and Polynesians ) and Amerind ( Native Americans ).

The bulk of ground sloth evolution took place during the mid to late Tertiary of South America while the continent was isolated.

South Indian scholars, holymen, settlers and traders were especially influential in the evolution of Thai culture and martial arts.

Its evolution may have been influenced by the expansion of savannas in South America.

Anteaters may originally have been adapted to arboreal life and the evolution of the giant anteater may have been aided by the expansion of open habitats such as savanna in South America and the availability of insects living in colonies there, such as termites, that provided a larger feeding target.

Tegus fill the same ecological niche in South America that monitor lizards do in Africa, Asia and Australia, and are an example of convergent evolution.

By the early 20th century, the fossils of Permian synapsids from South Africa had become well known, allowing palaeontologists to trace synapsid evolution in much greater detail.

In South India there is evidence for evolution of larger-seeded mung beans 3500 to 3000 years ago.

Advanced Television Standards Committee created the ATSC standards that use an ATSC tuner in North America and South Korea — an evolution from the analog National Television Standards Committee ( NTSC ) standard.

Theories abound about the evolution of the atelines ; one theory is they are most closely related to the woolly spider monkeys ( Bractyteles ), and most likely split from the woolly monkeys ( Lagothrix and Oreonax ) in the South American lowland forest, to evolve their unique locomotory system.

Convergent evolution in plumage between a larger and a smaller species is also found among other woodpeckers, such as the North American Downy Woodpecker (" Picoides " pubescens ) and Hairy Woodpecker (" P ." villosus ), the tropical American Smoky-brown Woodpecker (" P ." fumigatus ) and certain Veniliornis species, or the Striped Woodpecker ( V. lignarius ) and Checkered Woodpecker ( V. mixtus ) and some South American Piculus and " Picoides ".

The very first chapter traces the evolution and ethos of Sufi Islam in South Asia ... For readers like you and me, it is a revealing experience to be reminded of the liberal roots of Islam in South Asia ... The book rightly points out that the future course of this jihad will be decided inside Pakistan.

The only Protectionist Senator from New South Wales, he was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate, and was instrumental in the evolution of that house as subordinate to the House of Representatives, although he encouraged the introduction of legislation into the Senate.

A Change of Tongue, her second work of prose in English, recounts ten years of evolution after South Africa's first democratic elections.

The Railway station of Albury, New South Wales, completed in 1881, is an example of this further evolution of the style.

The South African literary landscape from the 19th century to the present day has been fundamentally shaped by the social and political evolution of the country, particularly the trajectory from a colonial trading station to an apartheid state and finally toward a democracy.

With the evolution and development of the City of São Paulo, the largest and most important metropolis of South America, an increase and rising of the criminality has occurred, and the use of high technology in order to provide safety to society is necessary.

The evolution pane did not proceed, but the Royal Society formed a committee which decided on a bronze plaque in the Abbey, and a statue for the new Natural History Museum at South Kensington.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

Carnegie instead preferred to see things through naturalistic and scientific terms stating, " Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

As a military writer, his position in the evolution of the art of war is very important, and his doctrines had naturally the greatest weight.

Some of those who advocated " independent invention ", like Lewis Henry Morgan, additionally supposed that similarities meant that different groups had passed through the same stages of cultural evolution ( See also classical social evolutionism ).

Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of conceptions of evolution and race which had serious negative political and social consequences, many 19th century historians pursued what they intended as reasonably objective research projects in the history of their own and other regions either to end by themselves using the results to support nationalistic goals or to see their work used that way by others.

He had particular difficulty in believing in natural selection as the main motive force in evolution.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.

In some cases, as in the first series, the DigiDestined ( known as the ' Chosen Children ' in the original Japanese ) had to find some special items such as crests and tags so the Digimon could digivolve into further stages of evolution known as Ultimate and Mega in the dub.

This recording-specific particularity had the effect of altering the evolution of the drum set and of stigmatizing the sound of the music recorded at the time.

This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin's evolution theory ; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.

The formula has had much evolution and change through the history of the sport.

Faunal succession was one of the chief pieces of evidence cited by Darwin that biological evolution had occurred.

However, the quote in context shows that Darwin actually had a very good understanding of the evolution of the eye.

Additionally, even if irreducible complexity had not been rejected, it still does not support ID as it is merely a test for evolution, not design.

According to Chernow, Madison's position " was a breathtaking evolution for a man who had pleaded at the Constitutional Convention that the federal government should possess a veto over state laws.

Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had for the later stages to have occurred.

At the end of the lute's evolution the archlute, theorbo and torban had long extensions attached to the main tuning head in order to provide a greater resonating length for the bass strings, and since human fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass strings were placed outside the fretboard, and were played " open ", i. e. without fretting / stopping them with the left hand.

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

The geography of southern Mesopotamia is such that agriculture is possible only with irrigation and good drainage, a fact which has had a profound effect on the evolution of early Mesopotamian civilization.

Paganini composed his own works to play exclusively in his concerts, all of which had profound influences on the evolution of violin techniques.

Once life had appeared, the process of evolution by natural selection resulted in the development of ever-more diverse life forms.

Over the course of their evolution, there were a huge number of pulp magazine titles ; Harry Steeger of Popular Publications claimed that his company alone had published over 300, and at their peak they were publishing 42 titles per month.