Additional observational studies seemed to uncover other connections as well.
After all, a series of studies seemed to indicate that I.Q. is largely inherited.
Alfred Kinsey famously – and, as later studies seemed to prove, erroneously – reported that 10% of the American population was gay.
Earlier studies seemed to show that areas of high altitude, rainfall and temperature had high cultural and linguistic diversity.
The ape studies seemed to appeal to a vague hope that animals might be gurus of sorts, offering humankind a salutary humbling.
By the early 1990s, several studies seemed to show that beta carotene, an antioxidant found in fruit and vegetables, lowered the risk of cancer.
A few years after its approval, nesiritide fell out of use because small studies seemed to indicate an increased risk of kidney problems and an increased death rate.
After an unbroken series of positive, but underpowered studies seemed to demonstrate Type D personality predicting mortality in cardiovascular disease patients, initial claims now appear at least exaggerated and probably false.
(Local businessmen implored him to try fruit trees instead.) Conventional wisdom held that quality red grapes couldn't grow in Tulbagh's climate, but Dorrington's later soil studies seemed to validate his hunch.
In the young it is thought to increase blood levels of oestrogens that promote breast development and early studies seemed to confirm this by linking puberty to higher body mass index.
Although early genetic studies seemed to support the model, more recent ones reveal that the ancestors must have stopped off in Melanesia for considerable interbreeding, which has left clear genetic markers in today's Polynesians.
