This genetic input could only be explained by accepting that Stone Age people were capable of sailing ocean-going boats, he said.
Fifty years ago Joseph Weber dangled metal bars in the hope of detecting telltale movement that could only be explained by a passing warp in spacetime.
It is a thoroughly illogical move, which could only be explained away by short-term electoral expediency coupled with an evangelical adherence to démodé 1980s neoliberal economics.
Of the DNA profiles that came to me, most of the children proved to have a similarity that could only be explained if they had the same father.
The German philosopher-psychiatrist Karl Jaspers had distinguished between two kinds of madness: that which could be understood, and that which could only be explained.
Oort suggested that the excess of orbits at very large distances could only be explained if the long-period comets came from there.
In these cases, the number of repeats on each chromosome was identical at each of the 16 sites, which could only be explained if they had inherited the entirety of their genetic material from their mother.
The update featured new computer simulations showing that the sharp rise in global temperatures since 1970 could only be explained by human influences, mainly rising levels of greenhouse gases.
Gravity is a two-way thing and 51 Pegasi b was spotted from flickers of movement in the star that could only be explained by an invisible mass in orbit around it.
WWF's global species programme director Carlos Drews said the disappearance of so many elephants from Ruaha Rungwa could only be explained by the involvement of the international crime gangs who have industrialised the killing of Africa's megafauna.
Irving's credibility as a historian was shattered during the libel suit at the high court in London in 2000 when a phalanx of real scholars exposed the distortions and falsifications in his writing that could only be explained by a conscious desire to excuse Hitler of responsibility for genocide and rehabilitate the Third Reich.
