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A core assumption of evolutionary biology is that adaptation is always ________: organisms adapt to their environment, never vice versa.
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The theory that the young Mercury collided with another planet appears ________ given Mercury' s abundance of volatile elements: a collision would have boiled such elements away.
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Although Wanda Coleman' s sonnets sometimes employ ________ word choices, they aptly bring to the fore a distinctly modern anxiety.
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Bone is a physiologically ________ tissue: it can change size and shape to meet the body' s needs during the various stages of an animal' s life.
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Literary fiction is (i)________ genre fiction. Why? Because its plots are less predictable, its characters deeper, its reality (ii)_________ actual reality. That, at least, is the commonly held view, shared even by readers, and writers, of genre fiction-or so it appears from their readiness to (iii)________ their tastes. But many new "serious" novels are just as constrained by their genre as any multivolume fantasy epic or cheap romance.
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Among historians, conjecture and grand vision have given way to (i) ________ ,an intensified focus on ever smaller units of time and space, and a (ii)________ to build analytical frames that can fully articulate the broad sweep of history.
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The guarantee of academic freedom to professors is intended to encourage intellectual independence. But so long as faculty members receive training in a specific academic discipline and are appointed to positions defined by discipline, and so long as colleges and universities are organized by departments that (i)_______ long-standing disciplinary traditions, academic freedom will also (ii)________ unique discipline-specific expectations. Yet the right to (iii)_______ disciplinary paradigms is also fundamental to academic freedom.
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Software makers typically write licensing agreements disclaiming responsibility for any negative consequences of using their products, but as computers become integrated into everything from cars to medical devices, that stance will become ________.
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Rather than use the traditional therapy, the physician employed unorthodox treatments ________ by her more conventional colleagues.
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As a general rule, the larger a governmental jurisdiction is, the (i)________ its personnel system will be. Since a large percentage of the more than 80 thousand public jurisdictions in the United States are quite small, much human-resource management is conducted in (ii)________ manner.
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My colleagues ________ the journalist' s vaunted expertise at securing high-profile interviews, declaring that, given her family' s connections to celebrities, obtaining such interviews must be no more difficult than asking a friend out for coffee.
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