Sentence examples for most plausible dates from inspiring English sources

Devoting a paragraph to running down the most plausible dates feels like a knee-jerk scholarly reflex.

Although we could only confidently narrow the date of the split down to between 2 and 80 MYA, the most plausible (and best supported) date for the split is between 20 and 30 MYA – a time when global cooling ended the dispersal of temperate species between Asia and North America via the Beringian land bridge.

(The only evidence in favor of the Platonist hypothesis is an explicitly unsupported fantasy in Augustine, to the effect that Platonist doctrines were secretly taught in the Academy throughout its skeptical phase [Against the Academics 3.37 43].) The fallibilist interpretation of the Roman Books is thus at least prima facie the most plausible candidate offered to date.

We chose normally distributed age priors to place higher probabilities on intermediate dates and lower probabilities on older and younger dates, which was most plausible in our case.

Strong structure was further revealed within forms (data not shown), especially for blunt-snouted lenok corresponding to different sampling dates, providing the most plausible cause of deviations from HWE.

Although our analysis was not powerful enough to exclude the possibility of a 78 MYA OW-NW begomovirus split, we believe that our ∼20.3 and 29 MYA estimates of this date is the most plausible yet proposed.

This dating for Wibbandun is slightly inconsistent with the proposed dates of 581 588 for Ceawlin's reign, but those dates are not thought to be precise, merely the most plausible given the available data.

We believe, given the paleogeographic scenario and our dating estimations which correlate with the former, that the most plausible explanation for the colonization of Cuba is vicariance.

Theorists dating back to Santiago Ramón y Cajal argued that the most plausible explanation is that learning and memory are expressed as changes in the synaptic connections between neurons.

Two possibilities seem most plausible.

Self-interest is the most plausible motive.