splittings

One can agree that LGT will likely not interfere with a robust phylogeny for primates that indeed recreates ancient splittings of their populations, without buying in to the notion that the supposed sisterhood of Thermotogales and Aquificales [two bacterial phyla — OT] revealed by a small subset of their shared ribosomal protein genes reflects an even remotely similar evolutionary process.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

H.L. Mencken made fun of the newly arrived poet in full flight from the provinces, appareled “in corduroy trousers and a velvet jacket, hammering furiously upon a pine table in a Macdougal street cellar … his discourse full of inane hair-splittings about vers libre, futurism, spectrism, vorticism …” Yet it is astonishing to reflect how long the Village managed to keep on regenerating itself, and helping to regenerate American culture and education.

Last Call, Bohemia Hitchens, Christopher 2008

One time, my Mom decided that my brother and I could each choose a vegetable to try to grow in our yard, and I chose an artichoke, and even years later, after many splittings, those plants were producing great and yummy artichokes.

Disappointment Bardiac 2008

One time, my Mom decided that my brother and I could each choose a vegetable to try to grow in our yard, and I chose an artichoke, and even years later, after many splittings, those plants were producing great and yummy artichokes.

Archive 2008-08-01 Bardiac 2008

These three results represent three differences, or splittings, between the mass states.

MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray John 2007

Even Wordsworth's most detailed thematizations of subjectivity in The Prelude are riven with the kinds of temporal and linguistic doublings and splittings that can be said to demonstrate the workings of subjecticity.

Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

The fetishism by which BASTARDS attempt to conceal their crimes behind disgusting splittings of extremely bloody semantic hairs is the work of crocodiles, not men.

Think Progress » “Americans will speak of the battles like Fallujah 2006

Russian will never be infected with philosophical hair-splittings and nonsense; he has too much common-sense for that; but we must not let every sincere effort after truth and knowledge be attacked under the name of philosophy.

Rudin 2003

All these pros and cons, these quibbles and hair-splittings were but a misfit attempt to cloak the truth.

Australia Felix 2003

These pronouncements, reminiscent of certain fatwas emanating elsewhere in the Middle East from fundamentalist ulemas, have usually been dismissed by the general public with a shrug, as folkloristic, politically benign splittings of Talmudic hairs.

'Israel's Demons': An Exchange Auerbach, Jerold S. 1996