The standard theory assumed that technology and preferences were fixed.

The standard theory was that cryptic forms were palatable, and aposematic forms were distasteful.

They furnished a number of useful results that were adopted as the standard theory from the earliest days of large-scale genome sequencing.

Standard theory uses simple assumptions to derive general, and commonly accepted, results such as the law of demand to explain market behavior.

They could not have been formed from molten rock which took many millennia to cool (the standard theory) because polonium decays in a few minutes.