The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BCE, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era.

However, there is no consensus, and according to Raymond E. Brown, the current opinion concerning Lukan authorship is " about evenly divided.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

Despite the lack of consensus on underlying causation, advocates for specific psychopathological paradigms have nonetheless faulted the current diagnostic scheme for not incorporating evidence-based models or findings from other areas of science.

However, the current consensus among the scientific community is that the extinction was triggered by the Chicxulub impact event in Central America ( which would have produced a sunlight-blocking dust cloud that killed much of the plant life and reduced global temperature, called an impact winter ).

However, the current consensus in the Earth science community is that this feature is unlikely to be an actual impact crater.

In 1999, Paul Ehrlich and others advocated public policies to improve the dissemination of valid environmental scientific knowledge and discourage junk science: ' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports offer an antidote to junk science by articulating the current consensus on the prospects for climate change, by outlining the extent of the uncertainties, and by describing the potential benefits and costs of policies to address climate change.

The term " dinosaur " is properly restricted to only those reptiles descended from the last common ancestor of the groups Saurischia and Ornithischia ( clade Dinosauria, which includes birds ), and current scientific consensus is that this group excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

A consensus among scientists today would hold that a global increase in atmospheric aerosols would probably result in a cooling of the climate ; however, a smaller but growing fraction of the current evidence suggests that it may have a warming effect.

Among the current advocates of consensus theory as a useful accounting of the concept of " truth " is the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.

Among the current strong critics of consensus theory is the philosopher Nicholas Rescher.

The current consensus is that Earth's history is a slow, gradual process punctuated by occasional natural catastrophic events that have affected Earth and its inhabitants.

According to current geological consensus, during the middle of the Pleistocene era there was a succession of inland seas ( collectively referred to as Lake Manly ) located where Death Valley is today.

The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around 1200 BC, during the archaeologically designated Basketmaker II Era.

This is evidenced by the current lack of consensus on issues such as central banking and welfare.

The current consensus of the scientific community is that the aerosols and dust released into the upper atmosphere causes cooler temperatures by preventing the sun's energy from reaching the ground.

It is not a mandatory statement of principles, but rather a consensus of current beliefs.

" flower pepper ") in a strict sense refers to the Northern China peppercorn, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, or at least that appears to be the common consensus in current scholarly literature.

Subsequent research using wider sampling has restored consensus among mammalian biologists that the current classification of rodents as monophyletic is justified.

The current scientific consensus is that AIDS originated in Africa in the mid 1930s from the closely related Simian Immunodeficiency Virus.

The cultural policies of the ( current ) French Fifth Republic have been varied, but a consensus seems to exist around the need for preservation of French regionalisms ( such as food and language ) as long as these don't undermine national identity.

More recently, Patrick Sims-Williams argued for a plausible range of about 1060 to 1200, which seems to be the current scholarly consensus.

The actual location of the Catalaunian Fields is unclear: Historian Thomas Hodgkin located the site near Méry-sur-Seine, but current consensus places the battlefield at Châlons-en-Champagne.

The current consensus hinges upon the Boltzmann-Shannon identification of the logarithm of phase space volume with the negative of Shannon information, and hence to entropy.

Hall wrote, according to current scholarly consensus, the dystopian Mundus alter et idem sive Terra Australis antehac semper incognita ; Longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime illustrata ( 1605?

Modern Pueblo oral traditions hold that the Pueblo originated to the north of their current settlements, from sipapu, where they emerged from the underworld.

The current social dilemma is one that has emerged from the controlling body mainly relying on classic Russian ethnicities, to Kyrgyz or Turkic ethnic groups shaping and forming the infrastructure of Kyrgyzstan.

The genre of ' card-driven games ' emerged with the publication of We the People by AH in 1994, and continues in current releases from GMT.

More specialized think tanks has also emerged in Spain during the past 10 years, like the Future Trends Forum from Bankinter Foundation, a unique think tank in Europe, focused on detecting social, economic, scientific and technological trends and analyzing their possible application and impact on current business models.

The folkesocialisme or people's socialism that emerged as a vital current of the left in Scandinavia beginning in the 1950s could be characterized as a democratic socialism in the same vein.

Through custom and usage, however, a fairly standard practice emerged, the essentials of which are outlined in current Navy regulations.

Those elections involved the current president and Urrutia, of which the latter emerged victorious.

The early Old English speaking Anglo Saxon settlers used a name which had the same meaning, Legacæstir, which was current until the 11th century, when, in a further parallel with Welsh usage, the first element fell out of use and the simplex name Chester emerged.

This school of thought emerged as a reaction to political tyranny ; it brought answers to political questions, or questions raised by current political circumstances.

The revolutionary year 1848 had its echoes in the Romanian principalities and in Transylvania, and a new elite from the middle of the 19th century emerged from the revolutions: Mihail Kogălniceanu ( writer, politician and the first prime minister of Romania ), Vasile Alecsandri ( politician, playwright and poet ), Andrei Mureşanu ( publicist and the writer of the current Romanian National Anthem ) and Nicolae Bălcescu ( historian, writer and revolutionary ).

Finally, by the early 1990s, the current understanding emerged.

Following Dembo, in elections contested by General Paulo Lukamba, Dinho Chingunji and Isaías Samakuva, Samakuva won the UNITA election and emerged as UNITA's current president.

In the period just before Indian independence ( Bengal, under British rule, was a part of one massive India that does not exactly correspond to the India of current day ), several new minor musical genres emerged, mainly in the form of playback songs for movies.

The avant-garde minimalist music current which emerged in the beginning of the 60s with the works of Americans La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich using drones and loops ( often with synthesizers and tapes ) in a kind of psychedelic and space-oriented music.

ICOC Chronicler Chris Lee asserts that three factions emerged, still extant today: a conservative group which seeks a return to the former, authoritarian structure ; a moderate group that, " while they recognize that reform is necessary, feel that the current rate of reform is sufficient "; and a reformist group which advocates radical restructuring.

Council communism ( occasionally referred to as councilism ) is a current of libertarian Marxism that emerged out of the November Revolution in the 1920s, characterized by its opposition to state capitalism / state socialism and its advocacy of workers ' councils as the basis for workers ' democracy.

Two centuries later the town emerged in the vicinity of the building, which resulted, in the 19th century, in the current municipality.

More debts emerged as the year went on, and an independent report criticised the Board and the current and previous Fringe Directors for a failure of management and an inability to provide the basic service.

The Russians emerged the winners of the region after The Great Game, which fixed the current northern border of Afghanistan on the Panj River and established the territory of Russian Pamir around Khorugh.

Two distinct forms of robe emerged, and these remain in current use: one is worn for parliamentary occasions ( such at the State Opening of Parliament ), the other only at coronations.

The Iron Age II levels of the site, in particular, have emerged as a vitally important component in the current debate regarding the chronology of the United Monarchy of Israel.

Júlio de Araújo, who would later become the president of Sporting and is a keen historian of the founding process of Sporting, noted that " day to day, two trends emerged: that of the boys of Lisbon who claimed the current headquarters and that of the boys of Campo Grande who also laid claim to that spot, as was fair and advisable.

A self-proclaimed successor group to Pērkonkrusts emerged in the 1990s as an organization whose stated goal was the overthrow of the current unsatisfactory government and the establishment of a " Latvian Latvia ".

The Decepticons killed the current Autobot leader, and Alpha Trion gained possession of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, hiding it away until the next leader emerged.

As the discipline of observational cosmology developed in the late twentieth century and the associated data became more numerous and accurate, the Big Bang emerged as the cosmological theory most supported by the observational evidence, and it remains the accepted consensus model with a current parametrization that precisely specifies the state and evolution of the universe.