And for speculative verve, nothing beats the assortment of hypotheses that have been put forth to explain the roundness of the human female breast.
The hypothesis of assortment as a consequence of individual preference for size-assortative mating can be ruled out because no significant positive relationships and one negative correlation between individual body size and preference for the larger stimulus were observed in both sexes.
The null hypothesis of random assortment of values in the two groups provides that both groups have the same mean rank r m, that is, r m = n + m n + m + 1 2 1 n + m = n + m + 1 2. (2).
The null hypothesis of random assortment of values in the two groups provides that both groups have the same mean rank rm: r m = n + m n + m + 1 2 1 n + m = n + m + 1 2. (2).
Jews, according to either hypothesis, are an assortment of tribes who accepted Judaism, migrated elsewhere, and maintained their religion up to this date and are, therefore, expected to exhibit certain differences from their neighboring populations.
The statistical significance of the observed association between pairs of alleles under the null hypothesis of random allelic assortment was tested using a Monte-Carlo approximation of Fisher's exact test as implemented in the software ARLEQUIN [ 40] using a Markov chain extension to Fisher's exact test for R × C contingency tables [ 41].
Also consistent with the hypothesis that component re-assortments are likely to be most permissible between closely related viruses is the fact that no clear signal of re-assortment involving EACMCV DNA-B or ACMV DNA-B components, which are clearly distinct from the other DNA-B components, was detected in our analysis.
We evaluate two competing hypotheses about the cause of assortative mating in intelligence: social homogamy and phenotypic assortment, and their implications for the heritability estimate of intelligence.
The "Rhineland hypothesis" envisions modern European Jews to be the descendents of the Judeans an assortment of Israelite Canaanite tribes of Semitic origin (figs. 1 and 2) (supplementary note S1, Supplementary Material online).
Such an assortment of ecologically diverse anoles may provide good models for testing the biogeographic hypotheses discussed here.
