Sentence examples for hypothesis held from inspiring English sources

Dr. Fuller said the findings of domesticated watermelon seeds support a hypothesis held by Dr. Marshall and her Washington University colleague Dr. Elisabeth Hildebrand, who studied how modern people in northern Africa manipulate wild plants.

Alternatively, the climate-parasite hypothesis held that the climate affected the interaction between the grouse and the parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus tenuis, which reduces fecundity in the grouse and is known to affect the abundance of the bird populations.

This hypothesis held that two kinds of culture-bearing hominins could not, on principle, exist at any one time and that, as a result, all hominin fossils had necessarily to be accommodated within a single evolving lineage.

But a theory developed to justify the approach — the "common disease, common variant" hypothesis — held that some mutations exerted their bad effects late in life, after people had had their children, and had become common because natural selection was powerless to act against them.

The latter hypothesis held true.

But I always wondered if my "free" hypothesis held water.

However, if the hypothesis holds, it might not be entirely bad news.

The hypothesis holds that Alzheimer's brain plaque, which contains a protein called beta amyloid, causes symptoms of the disease.

The first, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, holds that language determines what humans are capable of thinking.

The thrifty-genotype hypothesis holds that there was, once upon a time, an adaptive advantage to being able to get fat.

The hypothesis holds that the market so efficiently assimilates all new information as it sets stock prices that no one can outperform it consistently.