"Is it at all similar to any control mechanism your people might've created?"
One might wonder if women have a similar mechanism when selecting a man.
For universities of technology, there is a similar, but less strict mechanism.
This earthquake had a similar mechanism to the 20 May shock.
But the recent studies are the first to suggest that a similar mechanism may operate in humans.
Similar mechanisms appear to be at work in the physical development of adoptees.
It is quite possible that epothilone can also act though similar mechanism.
It is a mechanism similar to that indicated by the popular saying, "One lie makes a hundred."
A similar mechanism appears to have been invented independently, much later on.
There is also evidence for similar mechanisms of completion in normal visual analysis.