Sentences with phrase «competing theories explain»

Several competing theories explain when and by what routes our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa after they evolved there as early as 300,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

For this reason, scripture does not at all compete with evolutionary theories (e.g. natural selection) when it comes to explaining the fossil record.

Such a theory would be crucial for explaining the first moments of the big bang, when the universe was dense, hot and small, or what happens near the singularity at the cores of black holes, where the effects of quantum physics may compete with those of general relativity.

From past experiments, two competing theories emerged to explain how plants manipulated solar energy.

Their argument has been around for four decades, but nothing in the letter addresses the challenges we raised: that the mathematical ground of inclusive fitness theory is unsound and that, when you compare competing hypotheses, outcomes are much more directly and convincingly explained by mainstream natural selection.

By the 1970s several competing theories emerged to explain Cascadia's silence.

For years, the disappearance of the Clovis culture and sudden extinction of 35 genera of animals were explained by two competing theories.

And he listened as Kirkwood explained his «disposable soma» theory of senescence: Keeping the body in good shape requires maintenance and repair, but those investments compete with the demands of growth and reproduction.

The competing theories are (there was / is no theory competition) are: 1) The «late veneer theory» (the late veneer theory is connected with the fossil fuel theory, where a tiny amount of CO2 is recycled in the upper mantle) vs / or 2) The deep core CH4 theory (See the late Nobel prize winnings, Astrophysics» Thomas Gold's book «Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the earth as it solidifies, which explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural» gas / crude oil.

Phlogiston, persisted as a theory because no competing hypothesis existed at the time could better explained the data, and the data available at the time did not contradict the theory.

Liebe, U., Preisendörfer, P. and Meyerhoff, J.: 2011, To pay or not to pay: Competing theories to explain individuals» willingness to pay for public environmental goods, Environment and Behavior 43, 106 — 130.

The theories of competing capitals and monopolism explain the tenacity of fossil fuel capital in the face of new and better energy generation technologies.

Alice both describes different competing theories and explains why the differences actually matter.