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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

Never mind that these tests are hardly different from the typological categorization that was already popular in the ancient world.

From Forbes • Jan. 19, 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

Claims of biological species are often typological species in practice.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2012

When more detailed descriptions are available for the earlier ceramics of the Parker Series, the typological contrast may prove to be of sufficient scope to warrant classifying the Fort Mohave variants as full-fledged types.

From Mohave Pottery by Harner, Michaell J.