Sentence examples for monkey theory from inspiring English sources

His most famous contribution to paranormal debate was the hundredth monkey theory, proposed in the 1979 book "Lifetide: A Biology of the Unconscious" and enthusiastically embraced by New Age thinkers.

Under withering criticism from skeptics, who showed that the facts behind the theory were wrong, Mr. Watson conceded in The Whole Earth Review that the hundredth monkey theory was "a metaphor of my own making," a way of suggesting how mechanisms other than natural selection might work in evolution.

Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book "Supernature" and introduced the "hundredth monkey" theory to explain the sudden and inexplicable transmission of behavior and ideas across social groups, died on June 25 in Gympie, Australia.

PAGE D1 Man Dies in Triathlon D7 OBITUARIES LYALL WATSON, 69 A maverick scientific polymath and explorer, he wrote the best-selling book "Supernature" and introduced the "hundredth monkey" theory to explain the sudden and inexplicable transmission of behavior and ideas across social groups.

Darwin's accomplishments and acumen certainly earned him a resting place in Westminster, but his "monkey theory" was touchy, if no longer quite as polemical, especially among the conservatives and clergy who manned the gates to the Abbey.

The tale, which originated in West Africa, became a basis for an influential study by the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., "The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism".

Gates developed the notion of signifyin' in Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (1987) and The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988).

He is capable of writing dense academic tomes such as The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Criticism, and also presenting a Public Service Television documentary called Wonders of the African World, which his rival, Professor Molefi Kete Asante, called 'a travesty which mocks African culture and distorts African history'.

The dominant monkeys — who, the theory goes, were much less stressed and anxious than the subordinate ones — had 20percentt higher D2 receptor function, while the submissive ones were unchanged.

In the first episode, while Larry talks about a science teacher who climbed naked out of a papier-mâché monkey to rebut the theory of evolution, he asks out loud, "Can I get a flashback on this?" Refused a flashback by the imaginary director, Larry and the acting principal joke about whether the presumed censors will allow the phrase "fuzzy monkey".

Their pictures throw a monkey wrench into the theories about how crystal formation gets started.