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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of ‘the burden of proof has shifted a bit’
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Perhaps. Remember how few are the remains from Neanderthal sites. But at least the burden of proof has shifted a bit. Even if the habit is more ancient, it may have been the predisposing factor that then conditioned the African race to the whole notion of specialisation and exchange.
In this text I’m not sure the meaning of ‘the burden of proof has shifted a bit.’
I googled out and I found the appropriate sentence as follows:
? But now the burden of proof has shifted to us: we're presumed guilty, and we have to spend time and money defending ourselves.
When I compare the sentence in question with the latter sentence, I think I find out what I cannot figure out in the former, that is, I am not sure where the burden of proof shifted to.
Can you tell me where the burden of proof shifted to a bit?
And if I just totally wrong in my train of thought, what is it that I made a mistake about?
Thank you in advance
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Perhaps. Remember how few are the remains from Neanderthal sites. But at least the burden of proof has shifted a bit. Even if the habit is more ancient, it may have been the predisposing factor that then conditioned the African race to the whole notion of specialisation and exchange.
In this text I’m not sure the meaning of ‘the burden of proof has shifted a bit.’
I googled out and I found the appropriate sentence as follows:
? But now the burden of proof has shifted to us: we're presumed guilty, and we have to spend time and money defending ourselves.
When I compare the sentence in question with the latter sentence, I think I find out what I cannot figure out in the former, that is, I am not sure where the burden of proof shifted to.
Can you tell me where the burden of proof shifted to a bit?
And if I just totally wrong in my train of thought, what is it that I made a mistake about?
Thank you in advance
I put this question on another web-site. Please check out this site, see if this post has already been answered.
(Thank you again.)
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2860634&p=14458626#post14458626
Top answer
Having read only fragments from that article, I think that 'the burden of proof has shifted' towards finding whether or not Neanderthals had a sexual division of labour . While many scientists believe that this division existed millions of years ago, the authors cited in the article (Steven Kuhn and Mary Stiner) are of the opposite opinion. They think that it's exactly this presence of sexual division of labour, or lack thereof, what made some races prosper and others become extinct, as was the case with the Neanderthal.
- Having read only fragments from that article, I think that 'the burden of proof has shifted' towards finding whether or not Neanderthals had a sexual division of labour .
- While many scientists believe that this division existed millions of years ago, the authors cited in the article (Steven Kuhn and Mary Stiner) are of the opposite opinion.
- They think that it's exactly this presence of sexual division of labour, or lack thereof, what made some races prosper and others become extinct, as was the case with the Neanderthal.
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Having read only fragments from that article, I think that 'the burden of proof has shifted' towards finding whether or not Neanderthals had a sexual division of labour . While many scientists believe that this division existed millions of years ago, the authors cited in the article (Steven Kuhn and Mary Stiner) are of the opposite opinion.
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