Making something suitable for a special purpose

Usage examples of specialization.

And the very lack of specialization had turned him into something of more value: a generalist, a man with the ability to see the forest from a very dense thicket of trees.

Gazzaniga of the State University of New York at Stony Brook suggests that this hemispheric specialization occurs because language is developed in the left hemisphere before the child acquires substantial competence in manipulative skills and geometrical visualization.

Just as business had become specialized and organized, so politics also became subject to specialization and organization.

The specialization of American society has not, however, stopped with its specialized organization.

However, specializations of the vertebrae for weight reduction due to the immense size of these individuals, have provided some means for taxonomic identification.

One of the most engaging views of the subsequent evolution of the brain is a story of the successive accretion and specialization of three further layers surmounting the spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain.

The Polytrichaceae, on the other hand, show a specialization in structure rather than in form.

The postindustrial age required even more specialization, a larger base of workers and consumers.

Native Sphinxian life forms have always been more of a veterinary specialization, and there are a lot of differences between their neural structures and ours.

One way neurologists have traditionally studied specialization of brain function is to observe the deficits that result from various lesions.

That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly 2 8 O ¦ GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor.

Because chiefdoms and state societies have economic specialization, the defeated can be used as slaves, as commonly happened in biblical times.

It is the leisure time, community organization and specialization of labor in the first cities that permitted the emergence of the arts and technologies we think of as the hallmarks of civilizations.

Thus, Polynesian island societies differed greatly in their economic specialization, social complexity, political organization, and material products, related to differences in population size and density, related in turn to differences in island area, fragmentation, and isolation and in opportunities for subsistence and for intensifying food production.

The nerve cord had to specialize, even in the flatworms, and this specialization arose, in all probability because of the shape of the flatwonn.