It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

Humanity is understood to be in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale.

Debate continues as to whether a " revolution " led to modern humans (" the big bang of human consciousness "), or whether the evolution was more gradual.

There has been a gradual increase in brain volume ( brain size ) as the ancestors of modern humans progressed along the timeline of human evolution, starting from about 600 cm < sup > 3 </ sup > in Homo habilis up to 1500 cm < sup > 3 </ sup > in Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

Some individualist anarchists, such as Thoreau, do not speak of economics but simply the right of " disunion " from the state, and foresee the gradual elimination of the state through social evolution.

A book-length study of a concept similar to irreducible complexity, explained by gradual, step-wise, non-teleological evolution, was published in 1975 by Thomas H. Frazzetta.

He goes on to explain that if gradual evolution of the eye could be shown to be possible, “ the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection ... can hardly be considered real ”.

In this way the natural environment of an organism " selects " for traits that confer a reproductive advantage, causing gradual changes or evolution of life.

Morgan found many of the most interesting changes in living things have been largely discontinuous with past evolution, and therefore did not necessarily take place through a gradual process of natural selection.

Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against the theory of phyletic gradualism, which states that evolution generally occurs uniformly and by the steady and gradual transformation of whole lineages ( called anagenesis ).

A year before their 1972 Eldredge and Gould paper, Niles Eldredge published a paper in the journal Evolution which suggested that gradual evolution was seldom seen in the fossil record and argued that Ernst Mayr's standard mechanism of allopatric speciation might suggest a possible resolution.

If most evolution happens in these rare instances of allopatric speciation then evidence of gradual evolution in the fossil record should be rare.

George Gaylord Simpson for example believed that phyletic gradual evolution ( called horotely in his terminology ) comprised " nine-tenths " ( 90 %) of evolution.

When presenting his ideas against the prevailing influences of catastrophism and progressive creationism, which envisaged species being supernaturally created at intervals, Darwin needed to forcefully stress the gradual nature of evolution in accordance with the gradualism promoted by his friend Charles Lyell.

His estimate that the age of the Earth allowed gradual evolution was disputed by William Thomson ( later awarded the title Lord Kelvin ), who calculated that it had cooled in less than 100 million years.

Instead, human evolution features mainly brachiation, suspension and climbing as the primary method of transportation, with a gradual increase in bipedal locomotion over time.

Since the creation of the series Atmospheres in 2000 and Storm Stories in 2003, The Weather Channel has seen a gradual transition toward a mix of weather forecast programming and weather-related entertainment programming that paralleled the launch of sister network weatherscan, the evolution of the always on L bar | weather ticker, the development of weather. com and popular branded mobile phone applications, and the increased viewing and interest in documentary series programs on the topic of weather.

The classic examples of this would be Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Arrival, the gradual evolution of humans to ‘ hybrid ’ aliens in TV's Invasion, Threshold, the Animorphs series, Invader Zim, Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters and the John W. Campbell, Jr. short story " Who Goes There?

Since the 1960s the church ’ s proselytizing with other world cultures in countries outside North America forced a re-assessment and a gradual evolution of its denominational practices and beliefs.

The system has allowed for a stable and orderly transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market one and for the gradual evolution of free market institutions.

The previous development of population genetics, between 1918 and 1932, was a stimulus, as it showed that Mendelian genetics was consistent with natural selection and gradual evolution.

At its heart was the question of whether Mendelian genetics could be reconciled with gradual evolution by means of natural selection.

A feasible synopsis of the emerging consensus, may be put forward, namely, that the kingships of Gaels and Picts underwent a process of gradual fusion, starting with Kenneth, and rounded off in the reign of Constantine II.

The current consensus is that Earth's history is a slow, gradual process punctuated by occasional natural catastrophic events that have affected Earth and its inhabitants.

# Absalom, fili mi ( originally attributed to Josquin ; gradual scholarly consensus emerging that this may be by La Rue );

* The assault on the nation-state from below would include both the gradual loss of consensus, such as has characterized the politics of the United States in the 21st century, as well as political turmoil in China ( largely split amongst urban-rural lines ), Israel ( orthodox vs. secular ), Germany ( the deadlock following the 2005 elections ), the Islamic world ( fundamentalist or traditional vs. secular ) and elsewhere.

Metamorphosis is gradual but by the age of about ten months they have developed a pointed head with sensory tentacles near the mouth and lost their eyes, lateral line systems and tails.

This in turn results in the slowing down of the rotation rate of Earth ( at about 42 nsec / day ), and in gradual increase of the radius of Moon's orbit ( at ~ 4. 5 cm / year rate ).

Others have interpreted the fossil bearing rocks along Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada, as supporting a gradual extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ; during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous layers there, the number of dinosaur species seems to have decreased from about 45 to about 12.

Australia has undergone a very long process of gradual aridification since it split off from Gondwanaland about 40 million years ago.

Development of epistemological beliefs ( beliefs about knowledge ) have been described in terms of gradual changes in people's belief in: certainty and permanence of knowledge, fixedness of ability, and credibility of authorities such as teachers and experts.

At the end of the 19th century, the population of the city was about 105, 000, with a gradual increase over the next few decades, reaching more than 400, 000 on the eve of independence.

Further doubt has been cast on this theory based on fossils in Greenland showing the extinction to have been gradual, lasting about eighty thousand years, with three distinct phases.

Mikhail Gorbachev began reducing foreign aid to the communist bloc in the late 1980s, and this combined with the deaths of elderly Vietnamese leaders such as Le Duan brought about the gradual adoption of a relatively free market system similar to that of China.

Blake points out that if Peel were convinced that total repeal was necessary to stave off the famine, he would have enacted a bill that brought about immediate temporary repeal, not permanent repeal over a three-year period of gradual tapering-off of duties.

It was not foreseen at Rome in 1540, when the Church officially recognized the young society forming about Ignatius of Loyola, ( founder of the Society of Jesus ), what large results this new organization was destined to achieve ; yet a deliberate and gradual course of action against Protestantism dates from this period.

The term " TTL " is applied to many successive generations of bipolar logic, with gradual improvements in speed and power consumption over about two decades.

This status was to be short-lived because the power of Wessex was rising and Sussex was to become the first kingdom of the old heptarchy to be annexed in a process that brought about the gradual unification of the Ænglecynne and the foundation of a united England.

While inferences about protein folding can be made through mutation studies ; typically, experimental techniques for studying protein folding rely on the gradual unfolding or folding of a solution of proteins and observing conformational changes using standard non-crystallographic techniques for observing protein structure.

The act of conversion brought about, within a previously peaceful coexisting community, the expulsion of the ruling Jewish elite into the bleak hinterlands, the burning of synagogues, and the gradual reinstatement of certain Jewish families after the forced acceptance of Christianity and its supremacy and rule in order to allow survival for those who had not already perished.

After several hours the temperature is reduced in a controlled and gradual manner, resulting in the formation of flawless columnar crystals that are typically about 5 cm long by 2. 5 cm wide, although they may be grown much larger.

Post-war policies brought about the gradual improvement in the lot of the RUC, interrupted only by a return to hostilities by the IRA.

It has a hilly relief, small valleys, and gradual crests that reach a maximum height of about at Sainte-Pétronille and Saint-Laurent in the south.

January 1945 brought about the liberation of the city, which gave it a chance for gradual rebuilding and further development.

Since about 1050, gradual silting had caused the city to lose its direct access to the sea.

Calvinists have taught that a gradual process of corruption was predicted in the New Testament, that this process began within the New Testament era itself, and culminated in a self-proclaimed corrective brought about by the Protestant Reformation.

It allowed for extensive consultation about economic policy and stated that necessary structural change would be gradual and agreed.

“ n the London production, variations were introduced: a weakening of light and voices in the first repeat, and more so in the second ; an abridged second opening ; increasing breathlessness ; changes in the order of the opening words .” The purpose of this is to suggest a gradual winding down of the action for he writes of “ the impression of falling off which this would give, with the suggestion of a conceivable dark and silence in the end, or of an indefinite approximating towards it .” At the end of this second repeat, the play appears as if it is about to start again for a third time ( as in Act Without Words II ), but does not get more than a few seconds into it before it suddenly stops.

The harshness of his criticism and the strength of his reputation continued to discourage naturalists from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up until Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's death.