My hypothesis that the watch is in your pocket because you stole it, is not an ad hoc hypothesis. |
Further data of the energetic cost of breeding for males and females of other ratite species would be valuable for testing that hypothesis. |
They may not have given sufficient weight to two other factors, one an arguable hypothesis and the other a central fact of British politics. |
Scientists can't check Ohno's hypothesis by watching the DVD of the Y's life story, complete with quadraphonic sound. |
According to the heterotroph hypothesis, hydrogen was not a chief component of the atmosphere when life began. |
Although these results do not definitively pinpoint the source of the steps, they confirm the earlier hypothesis that shortening is quantal. |