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This typological approach to administration was normalized through what has been called the “prism of heritability” by the sociologist Troy Duster, now at the University of California, Berkeley6.

From Nature • Oct. 28, 2019

From the outset, 65 years ago, the languages investigated closely were typologically varied, and in tandem with theoretical advances inquiry has proceeded to unprecedented typological range and depth.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2018

The story is sometimes told as one in which everyone before Darwin was in the thrall of a typological view, which Darwin exploded.

From Forbes • Aug. 27, 2014

It’s also true that chipping away at the fantasy of a rigidly hierarchical aesthetic pecking order — a typological crutch for structure junkies — will open up the literary landscape to more writers and readers.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2013

Some typological differences may exist between the pottery of those settlements and the pottery in Kroeber's collection, which is from Mohave Valley.

From Mohave Pottery by Harner, Michaell J.