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  • Naturalistic is an attempt to explain the nature by excluding the possibility of intelligent direction as a causal explanation.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • And yeah, I do remember that the "Naturalistic" movement of the 19th century was actually highly progressive, politically.

    Is Depressing Fiction Effective? ken_schneyer 2010

  • What I was saying, I think you need to verify Bradford's definition of words like "Naturalistic".

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • "Naturalistic" science fiction is different - the subtitle of RDM's essay was, I believe,

    Brad Ideas - Comments 2009

  • heh - I scored "Naturalistic" in a very-rapid quiz-taking mode...

    Silly Personality Quiz Sage 2008

  • The Naturalistic anthropological perspective speaks of altruism as more of a developed collective behaviour that resulted in insuring self preservation, nothing more nothing less.

    Child Abuse Alert 2009

  • A peek behind the fence: Naturalistic observations of aggressive children with remote audiovisual recording.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly.

    Berlinski's Wisdom 2010

  • "The call of the Wild is unique in its appeal to readers of all ages, social classes, and civilizations," explains Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin in her perceptive study of the novel as A Naturalistic Romance: "Since its publication in 1903, it has been the most widely read American novel in the world, and its fame is far from diminishing."

    America's Greatest World Novel 2010

  • Naturalistic research discovered that only a small fraction of DNA functions as genes; continuing naturalistic research is discovering that some non-gene parts, probably still a small fraction, are important in regulating gene expression.

    Attached to Strings 2009

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