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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    specialisation


    1. “I take it,” said Sir Robin when he had closed the door, “that Ernie Stevens is a mathematician by specialisation


    2. This form of specialisation, in which only


    3. This specialisation had earned Hunterprint an unsavoury nickname amongst Pointer employees; Larry always returned with ‘freebies’ which he put in the canteen for the lads


    4. Von Baer's standard seems the most widely applicable and the best, namely, the amount of differentiation of the parts of the same organic being, in the adult state, as I should be inclined to add, and their specialisation for different functions; or, as Milne Edwards would express it, the completeness of the division of physiological labour


    5. If we take as the standard of high organisation, the amount of differentiation and specialisation of the several organs in each being when adult (and this will include the advancement of the brain for intellectual purposes), natural selection clearly leads towards this standard: for all physiologists admit that the specialisation of organs, inasmuch as in this state they perform their functions better, is an advantage to each being; and hence the accumulation of variations tending towards specialisation is within the scope of natural selection


    6. It accords with the widely extended principle of specialisation, that the glands over a certain space of the sack should have become more highly developed than the remainder; and they would then have formed a breast, but at first without a nipple, as we see in the Ornithorhyncus, at the base of the mammalian series


    7. We have seen in the fourth chapter that the degree of differentiation and specialisation of the parts in organic beings, when arrived at maturity, is the best standard, as yet suggested, of their degree of perfection or highness


    8. We have also seen that, as the specialisation of parts is an advantage to each being, so natural selection will tend to render the organisation of each being more specialised and perfect, and in this sense higher; not but that it may leave many creatures with simple and unimproved structures fitted for simple conditions of life, and in some cases will even degrade or simplify the organisation, yet leaving such degraded beings better fitted for their new walks of life


    9. So that by this fundamental test of victory in the battle for life, as well as by the standard of the specialisation of organs, modern forms ought, on the theory of natural selection, to stand higher than ancient forms


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    Synonyms for "specialisation"

    specialisation specialism speciality specialization specialty differentiation

    "specialisation" definitions

    (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function


    the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose


    the special line of work you have adopted as your career