Sentence examples for question of the causes from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, if 'fitness' simply refers to the measure of reproductive success, it is a quantitative representation of small scale evolutionary change in a population, and leaves entirely open the question of the causes of the change.

It was also vague on the central question of the causes of variation.

Hypotheses and "theory" were avoided as extraneous and speculative, as in the phrase of then-towering scientific authority, Newton (1643 1727): "hypothesis non fingo" ("I feign no hypothesis," Newton's reply to the question of the cause of gravity).

Having established the principal feasibility of improving UF-adhesive bond performance, the question of the cause for this improvement remains to be discussed.

As age is the leading risk factor for AD, the question of whether the cause of AD is also age-related naturally arises.

Where Hume most noticeably differs from Strawson, however, is on the question of the "general causes" of moral sentiment.

The question of the exact cause, and exact number, of non-combatant casualties in Libya has been put into sharp focus.

The high prevalence of congenital heart disease raises the question of the underlying cause of the defect.

Since we infer that the DNA strand bias is the cause rather than the consequence of the protein differences, this raises the question of what causes the DNA strand bias in the first place.

Locke objects that this explanation fails because it leaves us with the question of what causes the particles of the aether to cohere (E II.xxiii.23, p, 308).

But it is this accidental observation, not one made deliberately, that bears on the question of what causes the gamma rays.