Sentence examples for may have predated from inspiring English sources
In the case of both Angola and Congo, colonialism obliterated whatever political culture may have predated the arrival of Europeans.
From somewhere outside his ordered study, I got the impression that her understanding may have predated his.
Estimates of genetic diversity surrounding the HMA4 region in A. halleri suggest a hard selective sweep39, which may have predated the formation of A. kamchatica10.
Studies of shamanism indicate that individual totemism may have predated group totemism, as a group's protective spirits were sometimes derived from the totems of specific individuals.
Some anthropologists have proposed that alcohol production may have predated agriculture; in any case, it no doubt stimulated that development, because in many parts of the world the cereal harvest was largely given over to beer-making.
She has always flaunted a certain brashness in her persona and her music-making, and the orchestra — here, 18 string players — performs with a sometimes rough vitality that, though it may have predated her presence, probably draws on it.
In fact, the new work pushes the origin of land plants so far back in time that the authors say these plants may actually have touched off critical events that have long been thought to have predated them.
One form of the protein must have predated the other.
This suggested that some LysM motif patterns may have origins predating the divergence of fungal, plant and animal kingdoms, while other LysM motifs may have originated in a convergent manner [ 2].
However, because no trace in the regions surrounding the miR482/2118 loci in the S. lycopersicum genome can be found, the expansion of this gene family may have not only predated the split between Nicotiana and Solanum, but expanded even earlier.
A Chinese historian of astronomy, Xi Zezong, has claimed that a "small reddish star" observed near Jupiter in 362 BC by Chinese astronomer Gan De may have been Ganymede, predating Galileo's discovery by around two millennia.
