(It was previously assumed that mothers had a greater affect on daughters, while fathers influenced boys).
We had previously assumed that a comprehensive bill had about a one in five chance of passing.
When presented with reminders of their crime, it was previously assumed that their brain would automatically and uncontrollably recognise these details.
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic previously assumed that the best way to get people to save for retirement was by putting in place generous tax breaks.
China watchers previously assumed that an unwritten accord prevented corruption charges against any member or former member of the politburo standing committee, the country's top political body.
We consider a model of sympatric speciation due to frequency-dependent competition, in which it was previously assumed that the evolving traits have a very simple genetic architecture.
It had been previously assumed that Schloss Hartheim – a psychiatric clinic near Linz where 30,000 patients were murdered – was the only hospital in Austria to practise euthanasia.
Scientists had previously assumed that an object as small and cold as Pluto could not still have the molten core or liquid subsurface that would be necessary to sustain that kind of movement, yet evidence of movement is everywhere.
He, like the rest of us, had both previously assumed that the starting digit of numbers would be evenly spread among all the numbers from 1 to 9, so he was shocked by his own discovery.
It was previously assumed that the communication complexity would be O u2) for any number of nodes u which was later modified as O u32) where the number of nodes u= k2+k+1 and k is prime.
Researchers previously assumed that the formation of a new species takes a very long time, but in the Big Bird lineage it happened in just two generations, according to observations made by the Grants in the field in combination with the genetic studies.
