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11Court Jester Hypothesis — The Court Jester hypothesis is a term coined by University of California, Berkeley professor Anthony D. Barnosky in 1999, that describes the antithesis of the Red Queen Hypothesis in evolutionary theory. It refers to the idea that abiotic forces… …
12Featherman-Jones-Hauser hypothesis — This states that there exists a cross national similarity of social mobility rates at the level of underlying ‘relative mobility chances’, such that in all societies having a nuclear family system and market economy, the mobility pattern will be… …
13Critical Period Hypothesis — See also: Language acquisition#Critical Period hypothesis The Critical Period Hypothesis refers to a long standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to… …
14Kurgan hypothesis — The Kurgan hypothesis (also theory or model) is a model of early Indo European origins, which postulates that the Kurgan culture of the Pontic steppe were the most likely speakers of the reconstructed Proto Indo European language. Though… …
15Armenian hypothesis — The Armenian hypothesis of the Proto Indo European Urheimat , based on the Glottalic theory suggests that the Proto Indo European language was spoken during the 4th millennium BC in the Armenian Highland. It is an Indo Hittite model and does not… …
16Differential susceptibility hypothesis — According to the differential susceptibility hypothesis by Belsky[1] individuals vary in the degree they are affected by experiences or qualities of the environment they are exposed to. Some individuals are more susceptible to such influences… …
17Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis — The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis was first proposed by George C. Williams in 1957 as an explanation for senescence. [Williams, G.C. 1957. Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence. Evolution 11:398–411.] Pleiotropy is… …
18Escalation hypothesis — The Escalation Hypothesis is a theory put forward by Geerat J. Vermeij. It states that organisms are in constant conflict with one another and therefore devote lots of resources to thwarting the adaptations evolution brings to all competing… …
19P-Celtic hypothesis — P Celtic, according to one schema of categorization, is a node of the Celtic languages incorporating the following language groups: *Gaulish **Lepontic **Noric **Galatian *Brythonic **Cumbric **Pictish **Old Welsh **Middle Welsh **Welsh… …
20Q-Celtic hypothesis — Q Celtic, according to one schemata of categorization , is a node of the Celtic languages incorporating the following language groups: *Celtiberian *Goidelic **Primitive Irish **Old Irish **Middle Irish ***Irish ***Scottish Gaelic ***ManxThere… …
