In order to distinguish between a possible ancestral set of three Sp-family genes and the alternative possibility of several independent duplication events, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of identified Sp-family factors and assigned orthology by phylogenetic sequence analysis.
The virus' presence in wild birds leaves open the alternative possibility that migratory birds may have been the primary source, with secondary spread possibly caused by human-related activities.
The alternative possibility, four spades, would have failed.
Despite these tensions, the United States should also be concerned about the alternative possibility of a China-Japan entente.
And he essentially rules out the alternative possibility of a direct Darwinian path: a path, that is, in which Darwinism builds an irreducibly complex structure while selecting all along for the same biological function.
Because applying the tax break to only one class of taxpayers would require legislative approval in Albany, other Council members raised the alternative possibility of granting it to all property owners.
However, this hypothesis needs to be tested against the alternative possibility that contact and exchange among groups might have led to borrowing and blending among their weaving traditions.
But the alternative possibility of separating death from particular "death behaviors" motivates the question of whether there are further grounds for disaggregating death into a process.
We begin by reviewing Dung's abstract argument systems, and motivating weights on attacks (as opposed to the alternative possibility, which is to attach weights to arguments).
We contrast the proposition that markets reveal independently existing preferences with the alternative possibility that they may help to shape them.
Tom Kaye's Cooper Research Team (see Ongoing investigation) has suggested the alternative possibility that Cooper was Canadian, and found the comics in Canada, where they were also sold.
