Sentence examples for hypothesis held that from inspiring English sources

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.

Another hypothesis held that the four prototypes originated from a single wild species and that all different body types were entirely a result of selective breeding after domestication.

Our initial hypothesis held that if there was no source of CEA production after tumor resection, the serum CEA level should be cleared following an exponential kinetics format.

The original, "strong" introns-early hypothesis held that eukaryotic genes inherited (nearly) all introns from prokaryotic ancestors and that the differences in gene structure among homologous eukaryotic genes were due mostly to differential intron loss [ 39].

The oft-cited "Kuznets hypothesis" holds that intra-country inequality increases in the early stages of development and then falls later on.

Economic theory—"the life-cycle hypothesis"—holds that people smooth their consumption over their lifetimes, going into debt when young, buying assets when their earnings peak and selling them to pay for retirement.

A competing "multiregional hypothesis" holds that Neandertals weren't all that different from modern humans and probably interbred with them.

One hypothesis holds that bacteria keep fungi in check, but Ghannoum's team didn't find any major differences between the bacterial populations in the two groups.

As for why, one popular hypothesis holds that enlarged brains--not just in humans but in other animals as well--are an adaptation to new or changed environmental conditions.