In short, the comparative method made the strange custom more familiar and the savage more human.
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Some alternative or complementary strategies to describing and analyzing organism behaviour include phylogenetic comparative methods and quantitative genetics.
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The principal tools of research in diachronic linguistics are the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction.
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The comparative method is based on the Neogrammarian rule that the Indo-European sound laws are applied without exception.
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He gives the analogy an anthropological twist and introduces the comparative method coming into vogue in other disciplines.
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Just as Egyptian is related to Brabantic, following Becanus in his " Hieroglyphica ", still using Comparative methods.
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However, the system also legitimized comparative methods, thus extending the debate regarding the ethics of a comparative approach.
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Scholars were concerned chiefly with establishing language families and reconstructing prehistoric proto-languages, using the comparative method and internal reconstruction.
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Comparisons of species are used to examine interspecific or evolutionary allometry ( see also : Phylogenetic comparative methods ).
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Recently, computerised statistical hypothesis testing methods have been developed which are related to both the comparative method and lexicostatistics.
