Still, the prevailing hypothesis is that the bandit was some sort of connoisseur.
The prevailing hypothesis about Alzheimer's says that amyloid and tau accumulation are necessary for the disease and that stopping the proteins could stop the disease.
But that remains the prevailing hypothesis, suggesting that terrorists, copycats or isolated malcontents continue to exploit the weak links in an airport security system that cannot seem to keep up with those bent on thwarting it.
The finding, to be published Thursday in the journal Nature, reveals a new potential drug target that, according to the prevailing hypothesis of the genesis of Alzheimer's, could slow or halt the devastating effects of this now untreatable disease.
If the interpretation of the findings proves to be correct, it contradicts the prevailing hypothesis that the entire canyon was formed as recently as five million to six million years ago, advocated by many of the notable authorities on Grand Canyon geology.
"People would say this is the prevailing hypothesis," he says.
The prevailing hypothesis regarding psychotic disorders proposes that a combination of genetic and/or environmental factors, during critical periods of brain development increases the risk for these illnesses.
However, Collard and Wood (2000) suggested that cladograms derived from craniodental data are inconsistent with the prevailing hypothesis of ape phylogeny based on molecular data.
According to the prevailing hypothesis, the solar system condensed out of an immense disk of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago, with the sun in the middle.
New discoveries controversially hint that the origin of H. erectus may not have been African, as is the prevailing hypothesis, and, furthermore, diminutive and primitive hominins from Flores may be descendants of an even earlier dispersal of Homo than H. erectus.
The prevailing hypothesis, proposed by Howard Meyerhoff, posits that the Puerto Rican Bank, consisting of Puerto Rico, its outlying islands, and the Virgin Islands with the exception of St. Croix, was formed from volcanism in the Cretaceous Period.
