Ancestral states at the ancestral nodes of each phylogenetic tree were traced by using both likelihood and parsimony methods in the "Trace Character History" function of Mesquite.
It includes subjects like voting rights acts, direct democracy by way of ballot initiatives, the history and function of the Electoral College, campaign financing and alternative voting systems.
Dr. Povey said that a doctor with a good bedside manner could get around the problems caused by whimsical or offensive gene names by explaining the history and function of the names to patients.
And the history and function of the anus gets even more complicated.
In Britain, it may well have done us all some good to have known a little bit about the history and function of the European Union, to better understand how decisions made in Brussels actually affected us but for reasons of language, culture, and history, we have always tended to look to the US.
Sally McConnell-Ginet, professor emeritus of linguistics at Cornell, shared her insights about the history and function of the word "girl" in an email exchange with The Huffington Post, explaining that its roots aren't tied to gender, but to youth in general.
In its brief citation, the jury praised the work as "strong and surprising and perfectly balanced in its space" and noted how "the artist questions the history, function and the epic of art through temporal and physical contextual isolation".
Archeology should consider at once the roles of history, function, and evolution in the trajectories of change in past cultures and their components.
An extensive description of the history, function and reliability of Q methodology can be found in previous studies [ 25– 28].
As a consequence of such an hypothesis, it is possible to formulate the longitudinal shortening first, and subsequently compute the deflection history as a function of the shortening tendency.
