Sentence examples for provocative hypothesis from inspiring English sources

A new NBER paper finds evidence for an even more intriguing and provocative hypothesis.

To explain this trend, Mr. Pope and his colleagues came up with a provocative hypothesis: threatened masculinity.

In each of these cases, what began as a provocative hypothesis has, as new information has emerged, come to seem more and more compelling.

One provocative hypothesis is that the bias blind spot arises because of a mismatch between how we evaluate others and how we evaluate ourselves.

Combining some of her early survey results with the wealth of wolf imagery culled from cultures around the world, Dr. Heywood finds preliminary support for the provocative hypothesis that humans and wolves may have co-evolved.

More recently, he has developed a provocative hypothesis about the emergence of the laws of quantum mechanics, called the principle of precedence – and this one seems much more readily put to the test.

The American trend for long books filled with mountains of data in support of provocative hypotheses continues.

The possibility that a very primitive member of the genus Homo left Africa, roughly two million years ago, and that a descendant population persisted until only several thousand years ago, is one of the more provocative hypotheses to have emerged in anthropology during the past few years," David Strait of the University of Albany told Scientific American recently.

In this study, we have attempted to make one small step towards testing one of the most provocative hypotheses concerning the modular design of organisms: that modularity increases evolvability.

Most studies of modularity to date have focused on bridging genetics, development, and morphology, which has provided a solid foundation for broad-scale studies and produced many provocative hypotheses on modularity's evolutionary significance.

From these studies emerged a wealth of provocative hypotheses.