{"id":7547,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/comparative_method\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:03","slug":"comparative_method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/comparative_method\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The combined evaluation of both similarities and differences in behavior and its roots across species, developmental periods, individuals, and cultures. &nbsp;In linguistics, it is a method to detect genetic relationships through reconstructing the common ancestor of the languages under consideration, and by devising a plausible sequence of regular changes that originated from a common ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"analogy_-biology-\">Analogy (biology)<\/a>, <a href=\"canon_of_parsimony\">Canon of parsimony<\/a>, <a href=\"cross-cultural_psychology\">Cross-cultural psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"homology\">Homology<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistics\">Linguistics<\/a>, Serial homology (or homonony) <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined evaluation of both similarities and differences in behavior and its roots across species, developmental periods, individuals, and cultures. &nbsp;In linguistics, it is a method to detect genetic relationships through reconstructing the common ancestor of the languages under consideration, and by devising a plausible sequence of regular changes that originated from a common ancestor. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/comparative_method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comparative method&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}