Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.

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Many such explanations arise from the idea that males have more to gain than females do by seeking a large number of mates a notion that is ultimately based on experiments with fruit flies in 1948.

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Based on two experiments, the Fermilab team found that there is only a one-in-550 chance that the signal was a statistical fluke.

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Yet the transplant's protective effect persists with no sign, as yet, of diminishing and there is every reason to believe, based on the results of experiments on monkeys, that it will not diminish in the future.

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Many of these fears are based on results from limited experiments, often in the laboratory.

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Micromanaging university admissions, as the British government has been trying to do on grounds of class, with targets, quotas, fines and strictures, risks the same consequences as similar American experiments based on racial preference.

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American pundits might like to try the following two thought experiments, based on real-life EU instruments, and imagine how, with Mexico playing the part of Turkey, they would sell either to American voters.

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Unfortunately, there is no evidence that either of these strategies would reduce total medical expenses, at least based on what we know about past experiments.

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He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data.

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Studies claiming a link between cell phone use and brain tumors and experiments pointing to pathologic effects are much more convincing than arguments based on basic physics.

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She said ground-based experiments and space missions planned in the next few years would give more detailed information on distant planets like those announced by the Kepler team.

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Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.

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