Sentence examples for by two alternative hypotheses from inspiring English sources

The detection of an ancestral M1c sequence in Jordanians could be explained by two alternative hypotheses: 1) that the Near East was the most probable origin of the primitive M1 dispersals, West into Africa and East to Central Asia.

Paul Thomas (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) presented a new method to reconcile trees allowing for duplication and HGT, by comparing two alternative hypotheses at each step during phylogenetic tree building.

It has been suggested that the origin and distribution of thalassoid crustaceans could be explained by one of two alternative hypotheses: (1) active colonization of inland freshwater aquifers by a marine ancestor, followed by an adaptative shift; or (2) passive colonization by stranding of ancestral marine populations in coastal aquifers during marine regressions.

We tested two alternative hypotheses by playing back songs of adjacent neighbours, distant neighbours established a few territories away in the same microdialect area and strangers: A male's response to a given song depends on its familiarity with the singer.

Thus, the students appear to have learned that different tree topologies can be interpreted as alternative hypotheses, and that parsimony (Occam's razor) can be used to decide which of two alternative hypotheses is better supported by evidence (observational data).

○ Student teams should test their two alternative hypotheses based on whether species share derived characters.

The lesson concludes with students considering two alternative hypotheses for the evolution of lactase persistence: the culture-historical hypothesis and the calcium absorption hypothesis.

Fodor considers two alternative hypotheses.

We thus have two alternative hypotheses for the presence of +4G in protein-coding genes.

The LR is a ratio of the probabilities of observing evidence under two alternative hypotheses [46].

We considered two alternative hypotheses.