Sentence examples for secondary explanation from inspiring English sources

While this scenario requires a secondary explanation for the geographic expansions (such as climatic change) it could well lead to the same correlation between diet breadth and geographic range.

As a potential secondary explanation for the depressed mortality during incarceration, we obtained cause-specific SMRs for select deaths that are unlikely to occur in prison (Table 4).

A secondary explanation is that chromosomal gain is very common in HCC (Guichard et al., 2012), increasing the probability that some germline insertions are detected in tumor but not in adjacent nontumor liver.

The WMP estimates in the postvaccination studies show a decline, which could be explained by the impact of the vaccination campaign or, as a secondary explanation, that HBV has the tendency to decrease over the years.

A secondary explanation, for trends and for the differences with other European regions, may be differences in case ascertainment derived from the increasingly frequent use of prenatal diagnoses in the Basque Country, which, in turn, is partially provoked by the rise in maternal age.

Despite multiple lines of evidence favoring this theory, cases of endometriosis in premenarchal girls, newborns, and males all demand secondary explanations [ 11].

'Slashing' was explicitly cast as 'primary', and the other behaviours in this pattern were relegated to secondary status without explanation.

It is very much as if Darwin were testing Lamarck and rejecting his ideas at the very same time he was developing his own first transmutational notions based on Brocchi's analogy and the underlying ethos of contemporary British science: that secondary (natural) causal explanations should be sought for natural phenomena no matter to what extent God may be involved as the primary (ultimate) cause.

While mechanisms behind the interactions between foliar and root biota were explained in terms of water stress, primary chemistry and available biomass in early studies [22], [59] recent studies highlighted the importance of plant secondary metabolism as an explanation of both positive and negative feedbacks (reviewed in [23]).

The most common alternative explanation for secondary reproduction is that semelparous organisms with a recent evolutionary transition from iteroparity to semelparity, or with a highly plastic expression of parity, may display reproduction a second time when the fitness cost of doing so is not high.

In a recent article exploring the coherence of evolutionary explanations in secondary students, Kampourakis and Zogza (2009) noted that "Students did not provide the same type of explanation to all tasks; rather this depended on the specific qualitative characteristics…in the tasks".