In The Origin of Species (Darwin 1859), Charles Darwin already recognized that behavior, like any other trait, is liable to evolve by natural selection, and he later outlined the idea of sexual selection (Darwin 1871), which became one of the most prominent topics of behavioral biology.
It seems that thousands of years ago it was already recognized that androgen deprivation makes multitasking difficult — but doesn't prevent one from accomplishing a single task well.
Peter the Great, who co-reigned or reigned from 1682 to 1725, had already recognized that as he tried to open Russia to Western influences.
Anna Commitante, New York's director of English Language Arts, Social Studies and Gifted and Talented Programs, said "Nurture Shock" made "some very important statements about intelligence not being fixed," but she argued that New York already recognized that.
By awarding Mr. Gaspin supervision of the flagship broadcast channel as well as the cable channels, NBC Universal is acknowledging a shift that viewers and advertisers already recognize: that the distinction between broadcast and cable is evaporating.
There was also evidence that the ancients already recognized that biowarfare was a double-edge sword, as occurred when Hercules frequently brought destruction to those he hoped to protect -- a mythic variation on "friendly fire".
That recognition made more urgent this question: What if we could recruit a candidate who would draw the public back to a point that, in some sense, they already recognize — that the system is rigged, and that it must be unrigged if anything real is going to happen?
Equilibrium is a state in which no net change in some given property of a physical system is observable; e.g., in a chemical reaction, no change takes place in the concentrations of reactants and products, although the Dutch chemist J.H. van't Hoff had already recognized that this condition results from the equality of the forward and backward rates of a reversible reaction.
Note that Rao and Sachs (1999) have already recognized that Chinese respondents may have trouble answering reverse-coded items.
At the time of [PPS] Chisholm already recognized that this formulation of Brentano's Thesis was problematic.
