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ˌover-specialiˈzation
[over- 29 b.]
Too much specialization, esp. in education or evolution.
1931J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? iv. 144 Over-specialization produces..individuals with scientific hypertrophy and religious atrophy. 1936Discovery Oct. 328/2 The author emphasises the importance of correlation between laboratory and clinical observation and deplores the over-specialisation which has gradually crept in and checked many valuable conclusions in medical science. 1957Technology Mar. 3/4 The evils of over-specialization at school are never easily wiped out. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 258/2 Two extant species [of elephant] alone survive from 352 branches. Mr. Carrington suggests that the elephant declined more from this over-specialization than from unscrupulous Romans or Asiatics. 1974tr. Wertheim's Evolution & Revolution i. 75 As soon as the dead end produced by over-specialization is reached, only a forceful..breakthrough can produce a reversal of the involutionary trends. |