Famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, the archipelago played a key role in his theory of evolution.
Mr Ebner would have had only a small role in the merged group, one theory goes, which is why he was probably only too happy to see the deal fail and played his part in ensuring that it did.
The authors conclude that their findings support a theory that females may have played a similarly important role in the evolution of tool technology among early humans.
Michael Vaughan experimented with some bizarre fields, at one point opting for a Douglas Jardine-style leg theory, with Anderson adopting the role of Harold Larwood and five fielders gathered in catching positions on the leg-side.
Though punctuated-equilibrium theory as originally conceived has made few converts, the role of accidents in evolution is more widely appreciated, as asteroid collisions and nearby supernovae are recognised as hazards that can wipe out whole groups of organisms arbitrarily.
That suggests another theory is needed, in which the state plays a bigger role in the origin of money.
The theory behind productive gossip is that evolution caused gossip to play an important role in society over thousands of years.
Mersenne primes are most relevant to number theory, but most participants join Gimps for the fun of having a role in real research - and the chance of finding a new Mersenne prime.
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He said the lengthy and costly inquest had played a crucial role in testing those theories - but that some people would continue to believe in the murder theory no matter what the verdict was.
In theory, climate models should help tease out which of these indirect effects is playing the biggest role, and also say how much of the decline in ice cover can be assigned to natural variability and how much to feedback loops in which a little warming leads to a lot more.
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