Whether or not CNE is common, the mere possibility raises provocative questions about causation: in classical neo-Darwinian thinking, selection is the sole source of creativity and direction, the only force that can cause trends or build complex features.
Neither the GOP nor the New Democrats protected their working-class base from the dislocation caused by trends in technology/automation and global trade.
Molecular epidemiology uses molecular techniques to study the impact of genetic and environmental risk factors on the causes, trends and prevention of disease.
Whatever their causes, trends in the sex ratio of fetal death can have important impacts on trends in SR.
Mr. Katz responded that "only Canadian subsidies could have caused the trend".
Federal scientists cautioned that their figures provide no information on what has caused the trend to reverse.
One may thus wonder what could have caused this trend.
Furthermore, UAG treatment caused a trend towards decreased levels of hepatic TAG after only 6 h (Figure S2).
Intestinal CD97 overexpression decreased the number of tumors in the colon significantly in the Tg2 line and caused a trend toward fewer tumors in Tg1 mice (fig. 2b).
This means that local potential confounding factors, could have caused the trend observed in NSW.
