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  • Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
  • A paraphrastical recapitulation of those things which are taught in the first four verses of the eighth chapter, and their connection with the preceding chapter. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • According to Haeckel, the gastrula stage can be found in the development of all animals, and represents the recapitulation of the ancestral metazoan, the Gastraea, a diploblastic animal with a ciliated gut.
  • This essay, like much of the book, is derivative, little more than a recapitulation of facts better explored by literary scholars.
  • The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications by means of hormones harmonises with and goes far to explain the facts of metamorphosis and recapitulation in adaptive characters, and also the origin of secondary sexual characters, their correlation with the periodical changes in the gonads and the effects of castration. Hormones and Heredity
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  • Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
  • When you've read all the notes and done all the research, what is there to discuss other than a 'recapitulation' and other miscellaneous et ceteras? Rouflaquette Diary Entry
  • The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
  • Frank Brennan draws his lecture to a close with a recapitulation of his main points.
  • But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue. Echoes of the Week
  • Here's a year-by-year recapitulation of the last nine contests.
  • Yet, like Darwin and many science textbooks and evolutionist books for laymen, the editor of this journal endorses embryonic recapitulation.
  • [6645] Thus they mutter and object (see the rest of their arguments in Marcennus in Genesin, and in Campanella, amply confuted), with many such vain cavils, well known, not worthy the recapitulation or answering: whatsoever they pretend, they are interim of little or no religion. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • They learnt to take themes which did not sound exactly like the subjects of a fugue; they laid out their first and their second, and then they did not know what on earth to do, and footled and stumbled till it was time for the recapitulation; so that Haydn himself said the worst of the young men was that they could not stick long enough at anything to work it out, and no sooner began one thing than they wanted to be off to another. Haydn
  • His finished paintings are in part recapitulations of Claude's work, paying experimental homage to the glories of sunlight and water with new tonalities of colour made available by modern chemistry - notably yellows.
  • For those who have forgotten, here is a recapitulation of the crime.
  • Haeckel used embryology extensively in his recapitulation theory, which embodied a progressive, almost linear model of evolution.
  • Even casual readers may benefit from the sectional summaries or recapitulations in the book.
  • I conceived the embryonic form, in which the whole structure consists of only two layers of cells, and is known as the gastrula, to be the ontogenetic recapitulation, maintained by tenacious heredity, of a primitive common progenitor of all the Metazoa, the Gastraea. Evolution in Modern Thought
  • To make matters worse, he never provided indexes to his books, and gives no summaries, recapitulations of points, nor linguistic ‘signposts’ to aid the unwitting reader.
  • Again, Mendelssohn saw the concerto form as a field for experiment and his idea of continuing the soloist's cadenza figuration in the first movement over the recapitulation in the orchestra was later hailed by Ravel as a masterstroke.
  • This report is a concise recapitulation of events throughout the entire day.
  • Developmental genes has nothing to do with "recapitulation". Behe's Test
  • In the Appendices we include a brief recapitulation of the methods used for these measurements.
  • Now he has followed it up with (groan) a sequel, _Maelstrom_; _groan_ because the commercial strategy of tying the two books together has necessitated weighing down virtually the first third of what could have just as well been a free-standing novel with a detailed recapitulation of the events of _Starfish_ and their relation to the surface world that almost had me giving up on the book. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • In the first movement, after the first statement in the exposition, there is a passage of five block chords that crops up again a few minutes later in the recapitulation with a shift in the harmonization at the end.
  • Thelen's concluding chapter is not merely a recapitulation of her findings but rather provides important new insights on her topics, especially the broader issues of institutional evolution.
  • As genetic data accumulated, coenogenesis became less acceptable as an explanation of deviations from strict recapitulation, since it implied the inheritance of acquired characters, the Lamarckian theory, which was unacceptable to the new genetics. RECAPITULATION
  • Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue obserued; as the Spaniards, who reckon their descent from Hesperus, before the Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
  • In view of these facts, we may now give the following more precise expression to our chief law of biogeny: The evolution of the foetus (or ontogenesis) is a condensed and abbreviated recapitulation of the evolution of the stem (or phylogenesis); and this recapitulation is the more complete in proportion as the original development (or palingenesis) is preserved by a constant heredity; on the other hand, it becomes less complete in proportion as a varying adaptation to new conditions increases the disturbing factors in the development (or cenogenesis). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • I didn't fully understand the reason and don't remember enough of it to give a coherent recapitulation… but it had something to do with a New York state law back then that gave certain tax advantages to small businesses.
  • Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
  • There are plenty of apposite biblical quotations, and a series of questions by way of recapitulation and meditation at the end of each chapter.
  • Chapter 5 presents my theory, which avoids the recapitulation of Western gender roles and heterosexism inherent in many theories of attraction like Bem's.
  • The candidate concluded his recitation with an abbreviated recapitulation of the subdivisions of the five principal topics.
  • After the second climax, the music slows with a recapitulation of the opening theme and then fades to nothing.
  • During a ride to a natural tank amongst these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks previously examined, and which I have enumerated too often to require recapitulation; a convincing proof that the mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • A very similar effect occurs at the start of the recapitulation.
  • Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
  • The work in which he summarizes his perspective, is a recapitulation of various articles published earlier, but here we see much more cohesion.
  • Some of the material will be familiar to readers who have kept up with this debate, but this volume is by no means a recapitulation of debates now worn threadbare by constant worrying.
  • The events, though recent, do need a brief recapitulation.
  • The following, then, is less a straight recapitulation of plot and character than it is an introduction to the basic discourses at work in one of Rivette's most important films.
  • So we're left with an anti-relativism argument that traffics in relativism, an anti-corporate argument framed in corporate terms, and an Adorno/Horkheimer name-drop without enough self-realization to notice that the exclusionary schema it's propping up is a mirror-image recapitulation of what Adorno and Horkheimer were warning against. Archive 2009-07-01
  • In Sonata 10 in D Major, one of the six sonatas with full recapitulations, the lyrical second theme in the dominant minor provides a marked contrast to the assertive principal one.
  • At a much more popular level, the transfer of the idea of recapitulation into general thinking is exemplified in its expression in a book on child care that was a handbook in many thousands of American homes in the mid-twentieth century. RECAPITULATION
  • After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor.
  • As the theologian Robert Farrar Capon so astutely recognized, the entire argument of Ephesians in the first chapter is what is called a recapitulation.
  • This book will be most useful as a bibliographic resource for those approaching the topic for the first time, and as a thorough recapitulation of the key positions on central research interests on the question of physical attractiveness.
  • The editorial begins with a recapitulation of the basic argument marshaled by the Bush administration regarding his past actions while on the board of directors of Harken Energy.
  • One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts. The Haeckel-Wells Chronicles - The Panda's Thumb
  • Even casual readers may benefit from the sectional summaries or recapitulations in the book.
  • The "ontogeny" of a single human tribe must not be a recapitulation of the "phelogeny" of the meg-tribe known as a patriarchal state. An Oxymoron: "Marxist Communism"
  • All novels after the first in a series have to tread a line between standing alone and catering for the faithful reader who will be irritated by constant recapitulations.
  • Discuss in detail a good example of recapitulation, showing how the stages of ontogeny parallel those of phylogeny.
  • The recapitulation begins with the restatement of the second segment of the first theme.
  • And shame on you for including the outdated and proven fraudulent idea of embryonic recapitulation (that has been discarded by scientists) to reinforce evolutionary ideas in the public eye.
  • Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
  • The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
  • Scales of prices for commodities in "butters" or in pie-currency were evolved, so that we here have an almost entirely spontaneous but amazingly rapid recapitulation of the social development of the race by these boys. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way. October « 2009 « Maria Lectrix
  • In 1904, he published a book on adolescence, advocating a new theory of child development based on evolutionary recapitulation.
  • Although a strong form of recapitulation is not correct, phylogeny and ontogeny are intertwined, and many biologists are beginning to both explore and understand the basis for this connection.
  • In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
  • There was nothing left for it to do but to repeat, in short recapitulation, the course it had traversed, and to prove that it had been buried only after it had expired. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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