Early scientists believed that mate choice was driven entirely by the male, for example. (sciencemag.org)
Although he may have been one of the first to suggest that dogs laugh, the idea that other animals laugh had already been suggested by earlier scientists. (psychologytoday.com)
Earlier scientists such as Isaac Newton premised this assumption on a prior one that nature was created by an «orderly» God closely resembling if not identical to the God of the Bible, who, having a fixed character, was presumed to have created nature with the same kind of essential order or stability. (firstthings.com)