In support of this hypothesis, genomic imprinting has been found in all placental mammals, where post-fertilisation offspring resource consumption at the expense of the mother is high ; although it has also been found in oviparous birds where there is relatively little post-fertilisation resource transfer and therefore less parental conflict.

Their hypothesis predicts that: ( 1 ) anatomic position of endorphin production should mirror its presumed role in foetal-maternal conflict ; ( 2 ) endorphin levels should co-vary positively with nutrient carrying capacity of maternal blood system ; ( 3 ) postpartum psychological symptoms ( such as postpartum blues, depression, and psychosis ) in humans are side-effects of this mechanism that can be interpreted as endorphin-deprivation symptoms ; ( 4 ) shortly after parturition, placentophagy could play an adaptive role in decreasing the negative side-effects of foetal manipulation ; ( 5 ) later, breast-feeding-induced endorphin excretion of the maternal pituitary saves mother from further deprivation symptoms.

Theia's mythological role as the mother of the Moon goddess Selene is alluded to in the application of the name to a hypothetical planet which, according to the giant impact hypothesis, collided with the Earth, resulting in the Moon's creation.

For a long time, the local police supported the hypothesis that her mother Patsy Ramsey injured her child in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed on the same night, and then proceeded to kill her either in rage or to cover up the original injury.

The fecundity advantage hypothesis states, that a big mother is able to produce more offspring and give those offspring more favorable conditions to ensure their survival.

The particular application of this supine pose to freaks, friends, wives, mistresses, dogs, daughters and mother alike ( the latter regularly depicted after her suicide attempt and eventually, literally mummy-like in death ), tends to support this hypothesis.

Numerous scholarly discussions of Tutankhamun ’ s parentage during the late twentieth century, and the early years of the twenty-first, have mentioned the hypothesis that Kiya was Tutankhamun ’ s mother.

In 1837 he wrote " Practical observations on the venereal disease, and on the use of mercury " in which he introduced the hypothesis of maternal immunity of a syphilitic infant when the mother had not shown signs of the disease.

M-24 was eventually found approximate 13 kilometres south of Broken Bay, 5 kilometres off Bungan Head, proving the hypothesis that M-24 chose to not draw attention to its mother submarines to the south of Sydney Harbour and instead moved north towards Broken Bay.

J. Steenstrup suggests that Canute's sister may have been named after her mother, hence coining the ( now generally agreed upon ) hypothesis, that her Slavic name is Świętosława, but only as a reconstruction based on a single mention of her daughter's name and the hypothesis that she named her daughter after herself.

There are numerous cultural reasons why a mother and an infant might be interred together, so the joint presence of neonatal remains and an adult female is not taken as conclusive evidence of postmortem fetal extrusion ; however, there have been excavated burials where the position of a set of fetal remains relative to those of an adult female supported the hypothesis of postmortem fetal extrusion.

The ' mother tongues ' hypothesis was proposed in 2004 as a possible solution to this problem.

* The Sapir – Whorf hypothesis in linguistics states that the grammatical structure of a mother language influences the way adherents to it perceive the world.

Another study did show that subjects in memory tests are more likely to remember a given color if their mother language includes a word for that color ; however, these findings do not necessarily support this hypothesis specifically.

The most frequently cited adaptive causes for the menopause are variations on the ‘ mother ’, or ‘ grandmother ’ hypothesis.

Haig has argued that fetal genes would be selected to draw more resources from the mother than it would be optimal for the mother to give, a hypothesis that has received empirical support.

His book, Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, attacked the refrigerator mother hypothesis directly.

Although recent studies have indicated that maternal warmth, praise, and quality of relationship are associated with reductions of behavior problems in adolescents and adults with autism, and that maternal criticisms are associated with maladaptive behaviors and symptoms, these ideas are distinct from the refrigerator mother hypothesis.

He advances a hypothesis that the names of Narimantas ' sons indicate that their mother was an Orthodox Ruthenian lady.

It is assumed that his mother Eirene took over the government as regent, but there is little evidence to prove this hypothesis.

The seven tortured brothers, with their mother and Eleazar ( 2 Maccabees 6 and 7 ) were prominent figures on this hypothesis in the supposed dramatic dialogues.

This hypothesis suggests that males may be capable of provoking microchimerism-induced autoimmune-like diseases in the mother in revenge of selfish pregnancies.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Notwithstanding different interpretations on his first language, no evidence suggests that Xavier's mother tongue was other than Basque, as stated by himself and confirmed by the sociolinguistic environment of the time.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

Most birthstools or chairs had backs which the patient could press against, but Soranus suggests that in some cases the chairs were backless and an assistant would stand behind the mother to support her.

Queen Eleanor, mother to both Richard and John, recognises the family resemblance and suggests that he renounce his claim to the Falconbridge land in exchange for a knighthood.

Andy suggests a message be sent to their mother via ham radio in lieu of sending her a telegram.

According to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða she is the mother of Týr, the poem suggests by Hymir, but the later Prose Edda states that Óðinn is his father.

Praised by several Shakespeare scholars, but dismissed by some traditionalist critics, the film contains a considerable amount of nudity ( mostly male, but also some female, including a scene in which Caliban's mother Sycorax breast-feeds her son ), some unconventional casting ( Toyah Willcox's Miranda hardly suggests innocent purity ) and an unusual setting ( a crumbling mansion as opposed to an island ).

Tiye's mother, Thuya, was involved in many religious cults, as her different titles attested ( Singer of Hathor, Chief of the Entertainers of both Amun and Min ...), which suggests that she was a member of the royal family.

Plato's portrayal of Xanthippe in the Phaedo suggests that she was nothing less than a devoted wife and mother ; she is mentioned nowhere else in Plato.

He decides to go to Harvard, and suggests in the narration that he marries Brandy and she will be the mother of his children.

" American genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner suggests that Jane Wyman adopted her professional surname from her German-born foster mother, Emma ( Reise ) Fulks, who he says was previously married to Dr. M. F. Weyman, a St. Louis, Missouri ophthalmologist by whom she had several children who lived with Jane Wyman in her youth.

Research conducted by entomologists at Cornell University suggests that mother amblypygids communicate with their young by caressing the offspring with her anteniform front legs, and that the offspring reciprocate both with their mother and their siblings.

Also not mentioned, ancient mythology suggests King Aristo and Pelias were half brothers ; each sharing a common mother Tyro, where the former is a son of Cretheus and the latter, a son of the god Poseidon.

The location of Khuenre's tomb suggests that he was a son of Menkaure, making his mother the wife of this king.

He discusses the situation with his mother ( Leopoldine Konstantin ) and she suggests that Alicia " die slowly " by poisoning.

After arriving on Vulcan, T ' Pol is blackmailed into marrying her original betrothed, Koss, in order to save her mother's career ; although her mother, T ' Les, suggests to Trip he should express his feelings to T ' Pol before the ceremony so that she could have all available information.

Finally, and more subtly, in comparing the mother goddess to the mother earth, and the rain coursing down her as it courses over the surface of the earth, it suggests earthly fertility.

Alien Bodies subtly suggests that it is just the Eighth Doctor who is half-human, while other books ( such as Unnatural History and The Gallifrey Chronicles ) suggest that the Doctor's human mother is a Victorian Lady called Penelope Gate, and his Time Lord father is called Ulysses.

Book VI of the Iliad suggests Dione was the mother of many others, though that was lost through time.

Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses might be unlikely to be Mary the mother of Jesus, but James Tabor suggests that she is, in fact, Mary, the mother of Jesus and that Clopas was her second husband.