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psychology
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The Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes proposed in 1976 that people three thousand years ago were not conscious in the way we are, that they experienced their own thoughts as…

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astrobiology
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The Great Filter

If the universe should be full of civilisations and appears empty, something must be preventing them. Robin Hanson's proposal is that at least one…

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geology
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The Toba Catastrophe Hypothesis

The proposal that a supervolcanic eruption in Sumatra about 74,000 years ago caused a volcanic winter that nearly exterminated the human species,…

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anthropology
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The Obstetrical Dilemma

The proposal that human childbirth is difficult because walking upright narrowed the pelvis while brains grew larger, leaving birth as a compromise…

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medicine
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The Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression

The proposal that depression is caused by low serotonin, and that antidepressants work by correcting it. The popular version of this claim is not…

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medicine
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The Amyloid Hypothesis

The proposal that Alzheimer's disease is caused by the accumulation of amyloid beta protein in the brain. It has directed the field for over thirty…

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geology
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The Silurian Hypothesis

If an industrial civilisation had existed on Earth millions of years before our own, would we be able to tell? Gavin Schmidt and Adam Frank asked the…

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geology
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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

The proposal that a comet or asteroid struck or exploded over North America about 12,800 years ago, triggering an abrupt return to glacial…

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genetics
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The Thrifty Gene Hypothesis

The proposal that genes favouring efficient fat storage were advantageous during famine and became harmful once food became abundant, explaining the…

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anthropology
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The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis

The proposal that the human brain could only grow large because the gut shrank, since both are metabolically costly and the body's energy budget is…

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anthropology
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The Social Brain Hypothesis

The proposal that primate brains grew large to manage social relationships rather than to solve ecological problems, and that the size of a species'…

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anthropology
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The Grandmother Hypothesis

Human females stop reproducing decades before they die, which almost no other species does. The grandmother hypothesis proposes that this is an…

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criminology
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The Lead-Crime Hypothesis

The proposal that childhood exposure to lead, principally from leaded petrol, raised violent crime rates a generation later, and that removing it is…

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physics
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Is Time Travel Possible?

Time travel, journeying into the past or the future, is a staple of science fiction, but is it actually possible? The surprising answer from physics…

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astronomy
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The Drake Equation

The Drake equation is a famous formula that estimates how many communicating alien civilizations might exist in our galaxy. It is less a precise…

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biology
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

The aquatic ape hypothesis is the controversial idea that human ancestors went through a phase of living partly in water, and that this shaped many…

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physics
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Grand Unified Theory

A Grand Unified Theory is a hypothesized framework that would merge three of the fundamental forces of nature, the electromagnetic, weak, and strong…

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earth science
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Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth is the hypothesis that, on one or more occasions in the distant past, our planet froze over almost completely, with ice reaching from…

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astrophysics
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Cosmic Inflation

Cosmic inflation is the hypothesis that, in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the universe expanded at an almost unimaginable…

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philosophy
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The Simulation Hypothesis

The simulation hypothesis is the proposal that the reality we experience might actually be an artificial simulation, such as an immensely…

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