Statues of gods and royals were modified, sometimes beyond recognition, by successive rulers.
Older organs needed to keep up with the times, so they were modified, sometimes so radically that their original tone could no longer be discerned.
The resulting responses have a dialectical character: sometimes new ideas have been absorbed and orthodoxy has been modified; sometimes orthodoxy has been strengthened and codified in order to be preserved in the face of the dangers of such confrontation; sometimes, as in the religious life of the Christian Middle Ages, bold attempts at synthesis of ideas have been made.
Mark Ragan: The Golgi complex per se has been secondarily modified, sometimes substantially, in parasitic basal eukaryotes such as Giardia and Spironucleus (for a comprehensive recent review, see Sokolova et al., Cell and Tissue Biology 1(4):305–320072007).
Polyploids can originate by doubling of somatic chromosome numbers from diploids, but the most common origin in the wild is likely to be from 2 n gametes, where gametogenesis has been modified, sometimes through failure of one division of meiosis and generation of a restitution gamete with the same genetic constitution as the parent.
When Samsung or HTC releases a new phone, they choose a recent version of Android, then modify it — sometimes slightly, sometimes significantly.
We have Creative Commons, MIT, GNU and other open-source licenses that grant users more free rein to modify – and sometimes market – software while protecting attribution and creators wishes.
Studies have demonstrated that even if faculty adopt EBIPs, they often modify them, sometimes at the expense of critical elements that make the practice effective (Henderson 2008; Henderson and Dancy 2009; Turpen and Finkelstein 2009, 2010).
Notions about decentralization, morale, and human relations modified and sometimes reversed earlier applications of scientific management.
Some of the latest Neanderthal sites turned up modified and sometimes pierced tooth and bone pendants and other art objects.
