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Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of _____ resulting from the carbon atom`s ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
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Although evolutionary psychologists do not seem quite as imperialist in their intellectual ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the 1970s, they tend, in some critics' view, to be no less _____ in their claims.
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Now that photographic prints have become a popular field for collecting, auctions are becoming more (i)_____. It is not just the entry of new collectors into the field that is causing this intensification. Established collectors' interests are also becoming more (ii)_____. Those who once concentrated on the work of either the nineteenth-century pioneers or the twentieth-century modernists are now keen to have (iii)_____ collections.
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Within the culture as a whole, the natural sciences have been so successful that the word “scientific” is often used in (i)_____ manner: it is often assumed that to call something “scientific” is to imply that its reliability has been (ii)_____ by methods whose results cannot reasonably be (iii)_____.
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History teaches us that science is not _____ enterprise; indeed, it is quite the opposite, a motley assortment of tools designed to safeguard researchers against their own biases.
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Although evolutionary psychologists do not seem quite as imperialist in their intellectual ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the 1970s, they tend, in some critics` view, to be no less _____ in their claims.
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The 500-page history of astronomy that Agnes Clerke published in 1885 was remarkable for its ___________: the author's breadth of knowledge and her capacity for assembling and collating data were enormous.
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The ___________ in seventeenth-century Indian poet Kavindracarya Sarasvati`s writings is reflected in encomia celebrating his accomplishments, for like his work, the encomia were made up of separate collections composed in Sanskrit and Hindi.
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There is little question that in primates there is (i) ___________ between monogamous mating partnerships and extensive male care of infants. Nevertheless, that does not mean male care is(ii) ___________ situations in which females mate with more than one male; studies of savanna baboons show that male care certainly can occur in nonmonogamous systems.
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Although critics and curators have placed Romare Bearden in any number of contexts-with collage artists, with Black Atlantic artists, among American Abstractionists, or with artists from the Civil Rights era-he (i) ___________ the (ii) ___________ of the conventional art world.
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The author argues that (i) ___________ of economic growth data for the African continent as a whole are often (ii) ___________ because they obscure the diversity of growth rates among individual countries.
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Current climate models find it exceedingly difficult to simulate the seasonal and regional variability seen in Antarctic sea ice. Most models have (i) ___________, including ones in basic features such as the amount of heat input to the ice from the ocean, and because ice and climate are closely coupled, even (ii) ___________ are (iii) ___________.
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As a publisher and a businessman, Guillaume Rouille was ___________: he included a full set of portraits of the Ottoman Sultans in his encyclopedia to cater to the public thirst for information concerning the expanding empire of the Turks.
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Jorge Luis Borges suggested that artists who allude to their artistic influences in their own work, in effect ___________ their own precursors: we see past works differently once they are incorporated into later works.
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Animal ___________ may have originated from slow changes in Earth`s orbit thousands of years ago: as the orbit changed, less rain fell and food sources became scarce, forcing humans to herd animals for sustenance.
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Over the past century, brain research has made tremendous strides, but the field is ___________: it lacks a unified theory that explains the whole.
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While Zora Neale Hurston never avowed an affiliation with surrealism, an artistic movement celebrating the unconscious mind's creative power, French surrealist Guy Ducornet's citing her as an inspiration seems quite ___________ given Hurston' s intensely imaginative work.
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Saturn's rings seem ___________, but it now appears that several decades ago, the shape of the innermost rings was altered by a mysterious event that all our telescopes and spacecraft failed to detect.
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