Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley's stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.
It has long been supposed by many that the Netherlands invented what is called "total football," in which everybody moves, everybody improvises, everybody is interchangeable on the field.
It had long been supposed that luminous gas clouds in space owe their luminosity to the radiation from stars within them.
Last week's estimates from the University of Washington and the French group support the idea that the number of human genes is far less than has long been supposed.
They found, among other things, that temperatures have changed more suddenly and violently than had long been supposed; around 15,000 years ago, for example, Greenland abruptly warmed by 16 degrees within 50 years.
It has long been supposed that he was writing about the breakdown of his own marriage to Sara Lownds, a belief bolstered by their son, Jakob, who once noted: "The songs are my parents talking".
It has long been supposed that the multiplicity of pathways serves to provide flexibility in the face of environmental stresses, but the existence of apparently redundant pathways for electrons to a single acceptor, say dioxygen, is harder to explain.
More generally, it has long been supposed that the process of gyrification reflects cortical connectivity; however, without a clear understanding of the mechanics, it has been difficult to generate a specific interpretation of the nature or direction of this association.
The ParaHox cluster of genes has long been supposed to be the sister cluster of the Hox cluster, with the Gsx, Xlox and Cdx genes corresponding to the Anterior, PG3 and Posterior groups, respectively [ 13].
It has long been supposed that VEGF-A had no association with lymphangiogenesis, however, in two recent experimental studies, VEGF-A overexpression was found to induce formation of new lymph vessels and dilatation of pre-existing ones (Nagy et al, 2002; Kunstfeld et al, 2004).
