This is the central theoretical issue underlying all the polemics that characterise what have come to be known as the "Darwin wars", pitting Gould against Dawkins as his principal adversary, although in reality - and to the chagrin of creationists - both are children of Darwin, and agree on far more than they disagree.
Ahead of every Games, there are polemical issues, but during the Olympics the celebration is so big and nice that all the polemics are put aside, at least for a moment".
And how can we find a new articulation of the idea of Europe that takes into account all of the polemics that Europe is now facing, namely that in many countries the idea of a homogeneous Europe is not very popular.
As such quotes suggest, this is a one-sided article, as the all the best polemics are.
I am not taking Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century with me, because it has been spoiled by all the blooming polemics I've read about it, and it's so enormous it will break the luggage allowance on the flight.
Buckingham adds that what makes all these polemics questionable is the one-dimensional analysis of the electronic media as causes of terrible tendencies among children.
Others speculate that the old fox Scolari has selected Ronaldinho in the expectation that Ronaldinho's limitations will be exposed and he can be done with the polemic once and for all.
Haeckel filled the first Darwinist system, his Generelle Morphologie (General morphology), with cosmic ambition, new technical terms, ferocious polemic, bold pedigrees all the way up to human beings and taxonomic revisions which promoted amphioxus to a new subphylum, the Acrania or skull-less ones.
THE aging duelist sits in his Upper East Side apartment and contemplates all that is past, the polemics and late-night arguments and denunciations in one magazine or another.
But for all the prioritising of polemic, musically they privilege hooks and choruses: think 90s indie-pop with the accent on the anthemic.
