Arp (2006) defends a hypothesis about a kind of module scenario visualization a psychological adaptation that arose in our hominid history in response to the demands of tool making, such as constructing spear throwing devices for hunting.
Cosmides (see e.g. 1989) defends a hypothesis in evolutionary psychology that we have a cheater-detection module.[10] This module is hypothesized to underlie important components of our behavior in moral domains and fits with the massively modular view of our psychology in general.
Others defend a unitary view.
Bollywood stars defend a killer.
On a slightly more critical note though, one might have hoped for a series of converging arguments about what is supposed to be the thesis of the paper - namely argument A. Yet, arguments B and C seem to stand somehow on their own, each defending a particular scientific hypothesis, on the origin of life for the first and on the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition for the second.
A main pitfall is that several alternative explanations commonly match the genetic results; then, it is tempting to choose the one that corresponds better to the hypothesis defended a priori by the researcher.
In this paper I outline and defend an alternative view.
We believe that beyond the type of structure, organization mode can be associated with HRM practices.Pichault and Nizet (2000) defend this hypothesis by retaining a configurational and contextual approach in the Pettigrew (1987) sense of the terms.
I will first defend the hypothesis that dopamine subserves an error prediction system (and not merely a reward prediction mechanism); I shall then go on to suggest that the broad outlines of the view I defend are compatible with both accounts of the role of the mesolimbic dopamine system.
But a storm of criticism has forced the climate scientist to defend her hypothesis.
Locke explains his metaphysical distinction using one physical theory, the corpuscular hypothesis, as an illustration, and he often appears to accept or even defend that hypothesis.
