Possible volumes in the series may consist of timely reports of state-of-the art analytical techniques, reports from the field, snapshots of hot and/or emerging topics, elaborated theses, literature reviews, and in-depth case studies.
Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (1865), which immediately established his reputation as a leading anthropologist, elaborated the thesis that cultures past and present, civilized and primitive, must be studied as parts of a single history of human thought.
"Fast-Talking Dames," handsomely produced though carelessly copy-edited and proofread, is filled with insights into films and actors, although in its eagerness to elaborate its thesis it overrates such films as the limp "It's a Wonderful World" (Colbert and James Stewart) and the ghastly "The Bride Came C.O.D".
A hundred and twenty-seven almost exclusively European and American renditions of human bodies, from very old to recent and from masterpieces to curios, elaborate the thesis that colored figurative sculpture has been unjustly bastardized ever since the Renaissance canonized a mistake made during its excited revival of antiquity.
She elaborates this thesis in three steps.
The thesis was elaborated in Waismann's "Theses" dated to "around 1930" which were presented as Wittgenstein's considered views).
Larger questions peer behind elaborate theses on the future.
She has not elaborated on her thesis beyond a few well-chosen television appearances.
In a follow-up essay, which ran in The New Yorker that December, Mackay elaborated on her thesis, explaining that modern girls were after more than just fun.
That claim often keeps company with the thesis, elaborated by the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion have "nonoverlapping magisteria".
