Grabau also formulated an early hypothesis of continental drift.
However, an earlier hypothesis of Wickramasinghe's that the molecular building blocks of life could have been brought to Earth by comets is now widely thought plausible.
A more surprising result to emerge from the study appeared to contradict an earlier hypothesis about Orrorin's relationship to later species in the human lineage, Dr. Richmond and Dr. Jungers said.
The new US research, reported in the journal Science, confirms an earlier hypothesis that our ancestors only flourished after the dinosaurs departed, leaving ecological niches for them to fill.
Early in his career, Stevens was one of many researchers struck by the markedly high incidence of breast cancer among women in the industrialized world, in comparison with those in developing countries, and he at first supported the most common early hypothesis, which was that the cause must be dietary.
Importantly, these data confirm our earlier hypothesis that high Mn concentrations inhibit Cu sorption to maghemite.
From this, the Tafel slopes and electrochemical reaction orders, a mechanism, largely in agreement with earlier hypothesis, is put forward.
The latter result supports an earlier hypothesis, according to which especially a low sagittal asymmetry has a functional advantage.
Our study supports the earlier hypothesis that Canthium oligophlebium, C. obovatifolium and C. ramosii should be placed under Pyrostria s.s.s
Relative to the earlier hypothesis, this suggests that the fragments produced during model building phase were too small to have intra-molecular interactions.
