| 单词 | age and area |
| 释义 | > as lemmasage and area age and area n. Zoology and Anthropology (attributive) designating a hypothesis that other things being equal, the area occupied by a taxonomic group, culture, vocabulary item, etc., is directly proportional to the length of time it has been in existence. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > other theories animalcular1753 zoocentric1882 organismic1886 pre-bacteriological1892 pre-bacteriologic1902 age and area1915 neurogenic1915 maturationist1968 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > doctrines or theories > of cultural development age and area1915 unilineal1957 possibilistic1962 1915 J. C. Willis in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 206 337 Genera will obviously tend to follow the age and area rule more closely than species. 1933 R. U. Sayce Primitive Arts & Crafts vii. 191 The ‘age and area’ theory..assumes that, if two traits are invented successively at, and diffuse from, a common centre, the trait first invented will have spread further than the second. 1997 J. P. Mallory in J. P. Mallory & D. Q. Adams Encycl. Indo-European Culture 584/1 The ‘age and area’ hypothesis was extended to linguistics to determine the antiquity of lexical items. < as lemmas |
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