"People would say this is the prevailing hypothesis," he says.
New discoveries controversially hint that the origin of H. erectus may not have been African, as is the prevailing hypothesis, and, furthermore, diminutive and primitive hominins from Flores may be descendants of an even earlier dispersal of Homo than H. erectus.
Despite clinical use, the mechanism of lipiodol retention by tumours has remained unclear, embolisation of oil droplets in the tumour vasculature being the prevailing hypothesis.
However, Collard and Wood (2000) suggested that cladograms derived from craniodental data are inconsistent with the prevailing hypothesis of ape phylogeny based on molecular data.
If the interpretation of the findings proves to be correct, it contradicts the prevailing hypothesis that the entire canyon was formed as recently as five million to six million years ago, advocated by many of the notable authorities on Grand Canyon geology.
The finding that obesity is associated with increased endometrial risk in postmenopausal women is well established (Kaaks et al. 2002, Vainio & Bianchini 2002), and the prevailing hypothesis is that this association can be explained by increases in the amount of bioavailable estrogens in the circulation and the endometrial tissue (Kaaks et al. 2002).
Thus our results are in accordance with the prevailing hypothesis described previously [ 4].
This argument is in contrast to the prevailing hypothesis about the severe loss of diversity mediated by artificial selection during the domestication process.
This is in contrast to the prevailing hypothesis, emphasizing that ex-NMDAR contributes to excitotoxicity by shutting off pro-survival signaling.
The prevailing hypothesis is that maternal duplications are associated with the ASD phenotype based mainly on individual case studies, while there is still an insufficient number of cases to establish the influence of paternal int dup(15) on the ASD phenotype [Hogart, Wu, LaSalle, & Schanen, 2010].
