| 1. | " The selection of authors (and
the justification of selections and exclusions) is a difficulty that
follows naturally from the slipperiness in the definition of beat."
| Source: | Lawlor, William. "A Compact Guide to Sources for Teaching the Beats" College Literature 27.1 Jan. 1 2000: 232
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| 2. | " For example, Darwin
(1859, p. 86) wrote that "if it profits a plant to have its seeds
more and more widely disseminated by the wind, I can see no greater
difficulty in this being effected through natural selection, than in the
cotton-planter..."
| Source: | Rozzi, Ricardo. "The Reciprocal Links between Evolutionary-Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics" BioScience 49.11 Nov. 1 1999: 911
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| 3. | " The selection of younger and older
groups with normal audiometric thresholds presents a practical
difficulty because of the limited availability of older listeners with
normal high-frequency (6 and 8 kHz) thresholds."
| Source: | Souza, Pamela E. "Older Listeners' Use of Temporal Cues Altered by Compression Amplification" Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 43.3 June 1 2000: 661
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| 4. | " Operant conditioning, relying heavily on Darwin's
evolutionary theory based on natural selection, solves this dilemma by
embracing the notion that "accidental traits, arising..."
| Source: | Kehle, Thomas J.,Bray, Melissa A. "Commentary: current perspectives on school-based behavioral interventions: science and reality of the classroom" School Psychology Review 33.3 June 22 2004: 417-421
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| 5. | "... within scarcity
([1899] 1998, 14, 24-25, 113,220; Rae [1834] 1964, 96-97,323-24) and of
natural selection/elimination theory (13, 15,188-89, 212, 215, 225, 246,
335) is beyond doubt."
| Source: | Alcott, Blake. "John Rae and Thorstein Veblen" Journal of Economic Issues 38.3 Sept. 1 2004: 765-787
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| 6. | " For instance, the theory of natural selection is separate from
the theories of common descent and geographic speciation."
| Source: | . "What Makes Biology Unique: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline" Science News 166.12 Sept. 18 2004: 191-192
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| 7. | " A century after Linnaeus, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace revolutionized biology with the theory of evolution by natural
selection."
| Source: | WITHGOTT, JAY. "Is it "So Long, Linnaeus"?" BioScience 50.8 Aug. 1 2000: 646
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| 8. | "
INTRODUCTION
Optimality theories in ecology are built on the assumption that
evolution by natural selection molds animal behavior in ways that
maximize reproductive success."
| Source: | MORRIS, DOUGLAS W.,DAVIDSON, DOUGLAS L. "OPTIMALLY FORAGING MICE MATCH PATCH USE WITH HABITAT DIFFERENCES IN FITNESS" Ecology 81.8 Aug. 1 2000: 2061
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| 9. | " He also talks daily with
colleagues across disciplines who, like him, are trying to apply the
theory of natural selection to the design of robots and computers."
| Source: | Weiner, Jonathan. "A Conversation With John Maynard Smith" Natural History 109.7 Sept. 1 2000: 78
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| 10. | " The genetical theory of natural selection."
| Source: | . "ERRATA" Ecology 81.4 Apr. 1 2000: 1178
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| 11. | "
These features+ the older theories coupled with Jerne's experience
at the bench, could be said to be enough to account for his natural
selection theory of antibody production, and here most historians would
have stopped."
| Source: | Mazumdar, Pauline M.H. "Immunocompetent" American Scientist 92.1 Jan. 1 2004: 90-92
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| 12. | "
WDP: Consider Darwin's theory of evolution through natural
selection."
| Source: | Dess, Nancy K. "Killer Workout" Psychology Today 33.3 May 1 2000: 26
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| 13. | "
The Kansas standards will still test students on genetic
"evolution" and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural
selection."
| Source: | Witham, Larry. "Survey of creation, evolution finds few see `either-or' issue" Washington Times Mar. 11 2000: 2
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| 14. | " Because
the evidence does not unambiguously select one theory over another, it
is claimed that theories are virtually if not actually unconstrained by
the natural world and that theory selection is therefore a function of
nonempirical social factors."
| Source: | Barbiero, Daniel. "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science" Issues in Science and Technology 15.4 June 22 1999: 76-79
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| 15. | "
As Charles Darwin explained in his autobiography, his own theory of
evolution by natural selection was inspired by his reading of
Malthus's Essay on the Principles of Population in 1838 -- only the
fittest survived."
| Source: | Rickard, Suzanne. "CONVERSATIONS WITH MALTHUS" History Today 49.12 Dec. 1 1999: 47
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| 16. | " Nonetheless, the evidence for
Darwin's theory of natural selection is far stronger than Johnson
lets on.
The fact is that the evolutionary "tree" of species based
upon anatomy and paleontology now is being confirmed by DNA evidence."
| Source: | . "Correspondence" Insight on the News 15.41 Nov. 8 1999: 3
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| 17. | " Darwin's theory of
natural selection gave the hook to Deism by "remov[ing] any
necessity for a metaphor of purpose when discussing natural
history." But Darwin, Cliffs Notes history notwithstanding, did not
kill Christianity."
| Source: | Gross, Michael Joseph. "Mourning and America" Nation 269.14 Nov. 1 1999: 29
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| 18. | "... the laws of motion, the calculus, the
composition of white light, the theory of evolution by natural
selection, or the role of earthworms in the subsidence of the liths at
Stonehenge."
| Source: | PIERSON, STUART. "Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge" History: Review of New Books 27.3 Mar. 22 1999: 138
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| 19. | " Eisner is a convinced
Darwinian, and each of his chapters is another brick in an edifice
supporting natural selection, joining the already numerous examples of
that process in action, examples that make it possible for biologists to
internalize the theory."
| Source: | Shear, William A. "Entomological tales" American Scientist 92.4 July 1 2004: 382-384
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| 20. | "... University Press, 1977], includes a detailed account of the
history of recapitulation--an evolutionary notion exceeded only by
natural selection itself for impact upon popular culture.)
As primary support for his theory of recapitulation, and to advance
the argument that all..."
| Source: | Gould, Stephen Jay. "Abscheulich!" Natural History 109.2 Mar. 1 2000: 42
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| 21. | " This theoretical position, group selection, is thoroughly
incompatible with Darwinian natural selection theory."
| Source: | Bixler, Ray H. "Living With Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than YouThink" Journal of Sex Research 35.4 Nov. 1 1998: 408-409
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| 22. | " Finally, self-limiting selection may
constrain gnathopod size in the large-bodied ecotype since selection
favoring larger residual gnathopod size in the sexual selection episode
was reversed in the natural selection episode."
| Source: | WELLBORN, GARY A. "Selection on a Sexually Dimorphic Trait in Ecotypes within the Hyalella azteca Species Complex" American Midland Naturalist 143.1 Jan. 1 2000: 212
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| 23. | "
LENORMAND, THOMAS 2002 Gene flow and the limits to natural
selection."
| Source: | Keates, Susan G. "Home range size in Middle Pleistocene China and human dispersal patterns in Eastern and Central Asia" Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific 43.2 Sept. 22 2004: 227-248
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| 24. | " The limited
contribution of carnivore science to ecological theory and synthesis is
discussed in light of inherent difficulties and expense of studying
carnivores and the limited opportunities for experimentation and
hypothesis testing."
| Source: | Fritts, Steven H. "CARNIVORES IN ECOSYSTEMS" Ecology 81.8 Aug. 1 2000: 2351
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| 25. | "
As a pedagogical tool, the biggest difficulty with The Art Song in
Latin America is the vocal range of its selections."
| Source: | THOMAS, SUSAN. "The Art Song in Latin America: Selected Works byTwentieth-Century Composers" Notes 56.4 June 1 2000: 1045
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