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It is methodologically less plausible, for example, to assume that the Vedic vowel system, which contains a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, but no short e or o, is the system ancestral to that of Indo-European languages such as Greek and Latin, which do have short e and o.

And it is much less plausible for non-linguistic types, like types of beetles, some of which have yet to be discovered.

Daniel Nolan (2007) has recently argued that Lewis's approach is less plausible for desire than for belief, and Robert Stalnaker (2008) argues that the view makes the wrong judgments about sameness and difference of belief across agents and times.

A role of infection and/or immunological changes has been postulated for the increase of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia [ 7, 8], which is less plausible for solid cancers.

Education level at the age of 28 years could be a consequence of schizophrenia with an earlier debut but such reverse causality would be less plausible for the strong negative association with general ability 10 years earlier (Supplementary table 1).

One can never completely exclude the possibility that the measured character changed as a correlated response to selection (although this seems less plausible for the larger, and sometimes dramatic, character differences often considered in QTL analyses)" [ 12].

Similarly, it has been hypothesized that RNA was preceded in evolution by a nucleic acid analogue – for example, one in which glycerol replaces ribose in the phosphodiester backbone – though pathways for the prebiotic synthesis of many such analogues are even less plausible than for RNA itself [ 17].

It is hard to imagine a less plausible argument for the restorative qualities of romance than Manson.

We therefore propose that pingo origin is a less plausible explanation for the formation of the mounds.

Second, although it is possible for variations in the number of nucleotide repeats in hormone-related genes to be associated with cancer risk, such an association is less plausible biologically for the TTTA repeat numbers in the CYP19 gene.

However, this is a less plausible explanation for the present finding, as we found no significant differences in energy intake and BMI in subjects with depressive symptoms compared to those without.