Tag: models
Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?
Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions.
Controversy Arising: Timetrees Unconstrained
Two theorists have created a stir in evolutionary circles, claiming that Darwinian phylogeny efforts (tree-building) cannot be constrained to one “best” answer.
Testing Scientific Hypotheses Using Specified Complexity
Observing a crumb trail and an opened cookie jar, we infer that a child has been at work. Science requires more precision in weighing explanations.