If we then look at large patterns in the history of life, to see what kinds of messages the fossils give us, this is one of the classical ones.
This course will examine conventions and patterns in the history of recorded human communication to consider how future technologies of text (methods of recording, modes of information exchange, devices for reading text) might develop.
He said the investigation had "noted unfortunate patterns in the history of the 24 member 2010 Fifa executive committee" and also recommended members should not be allowed to take part in votes in which they share a nationality with one of the bidding nations.
The identification of basic patterns in the history of oral and written traditions the stage of tradition prior to any literary form and particularly as the traditions passed from an oral to a written form and the determination of their creative milieu, or their situations and functions in various places and under various circumstances, are tasks of form criticism.
What are the major patterns in the history of American grand strategy?
The identification and explanation of large-scale patterns in the history of life represents an important but challenging component of evolutionary research.
Large-scale patterns in the history of life have also been of considerable interest to nonspecialists, although misinterpretations and misunderstandings of this important issue are common and can have significant implications for an overall understanding of evolution.
The contingentist may reply that, even though the counterfactual robustness of the laws is grounded in a convention, that convention may not be arbitrary, but may have its rationale in certain features of the laws that make them, in some sense, objectively important (Sidelle 2002), e.g., the fact that they relate to particularly pervasive and conspicuous patterns in the history of the world.
We sincerely hope that this issue of E E&O on teaching phylogenetics will help redress the blatant public misunderstanding on both sides of the political aisle of what evolution actually is: how it works and what the patterns in the history of life actually look like.
By contrast, Humeans, who (roughly speaking) regard the laws as summaries of pervasive general patterns in the history of the world (e.g., Lewis 1973b , 1994, may find it less natural to think of laws as being necessary in an interesting and substantive sense.
