In a popular book called Rare Earth, paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee laid out a pessimistic hypothesis.
Dr. Atkinson's findings are consistent with the prevailing view of the origin of modern humans, known as the "out of Africa" hypothesis.
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His hypothesis turned out to be correct.
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Call it the Sustainability Holism Hypothesis coming straight out of eco-thinking.
"It's a wonderful contribution and another piece of the mosaic" supporting the out-of-Africa hypothesis, said Ekkehard Wolff, professor emeritus of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Leipzig in Germany, who read the paper.
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Indeed, there are theories out there like the efficient markets hypothesis which say that we cannot in fact predict them.
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Gordon which puts forward the hypothesis that humanity is running out of capacity for economic growth and that we need to prepare for great stagnation.
But, as Dr Tilghman points out, some species emerge more rapidly than this hypothesis can explain.
Once researchers confirm the overarching hypothesis that natural gas can be sweated out of the seabed, commercialization will follow.
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In the end, these results can't be good for Merck, even though, as de Lemos points out, the inflammation idea is still just a hypothesis.
Or do you instead take the road followed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and conclude that data which undermine your favoured hypothesis are not valid, and throw out the data?
For the second type of entrepreneur, Spanos advises them to build a prototype and test it out on potential customers in order to determine whether the initial hypothesis about the opportunity is right or should be changed.
LaunchPad central shows great promise in terms of helping a startup team keep track of their business model canvas as it evolves based on your hypothesis, keeping track of customer contact as you get out of the building, and providing a way to engage mentors and advisors in the process.
Whereas traditional product development would involve making product decisions using business intuition and knowledge, Zynga turned decision-making on its head by hypothesis-driven product testing, quick analysis and agile roll-out based on how customers behaved.
As Mauboussin points out, the Paradox of Skill is a concrete way to describe the efficient market hypothesis.
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Studying these will test the hypothesis that modern shells are more efficient than ancient ones, and thus out-competed them.
People ask if your hypothesis is true, and then suggest ways to raise the money to find out.
And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.
Authorities say no hypothesis for the blast that on Thursday killed 33 people and injured 121 has been ruled out.
The interpretation of the evidence obtained in this study, based on the use of advanced analytical methods, supports the hypothesis of an intentional therapeutic treatment, but alternative post-mortem practices are not ruled out.
Dr Wittlinger, therefore, decided to investigate a century-old hypothesis that desert ants have internal pedometers in other words, they count their steps out, and they count them back.
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