comparative method
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Buckland adopted also in the liassic case his actualistic – comparative method to infer a possible behaviour of the extinct animals:
From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2014
The way linguists compare words from descendant languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.
From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2013
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.
From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2013
A methodology that has proved useful involves the comparative method and so-called natural experiments.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Paine is more complete master of the comparative method than Tindal in his "Christianity as old as the Creation."
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
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