postulated
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Although much has been discovered about selfish element silencing in the thirty years since Denise Barlow postulated her theory, a direct connection between germline defense mechanisms and the origin of parent-of-origin effects was missing.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024
One leading candidate traces back to a possibility postulated by Albert Einstein in 1917 to as a mathematical “fix” to his general theory of relativity.
From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023
Just as a thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger postulated that a cat could be in a quantum state that is both dead and alive, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023
So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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