Not Just a Theory--The Utility of Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Biology e1002017
An important purpose of mathematical models in evolutionary research, as in many other fields, is to act as "proof-of-concept" tests of the logic in verbal explanations, paralleling the way in which empirical data are used to test hypotheses. Because not all subfields of biology use mathem...
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Published in | PLoS biology Vol. 12; no. 12 |
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Abstract | An important purpose of mathematical models in evolutionary research, as in many other fields, is to act as "proof-of-concept" tests of the logic in verbal explanations, paralleling the way in which empirical data are used to test hypotheses. Because not all subfields of biology use mathematics for this purpose, misunderstandings of the function of proof-of-concept modeling are common. Speciation models in general have made it clear that the devil is in the details; there are many important biological conditions that combine to determine whether speciation is more or less likely to occur. Because speciation is exceedingly difficult to replicate experimentally, theoretical developments such as these have been particularly valuable. |
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AbstractList | An important purpose of mathematical models in evolutionary research, as in many other fields, is to act as "proof-of-concept" tests of the logic in verbal explanations, paralleling the way in which empirical data are used to test hypotheses. Because not all subfields of biology use mathematics for this purpose, misunderstandings of the function of proof-of-concept modeling are common. Speciation models in general have made it clear that the devil is in the details; there are many important biological conditions that combine to determine whether speciation is more or less likely to occur. Because speciation is exceedingly difficult to replicate experimentally, theoretical developments such as these have been particularly valuable. |
Author | Goldberg, Emma E Fitzpatrick, Courtney L Yeh, D Justin Stern, Caitlin A Brandvain, Yaniv Dhole, Sumit Cleve, Jeremy Van Servedio, Maria R |
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Copyright | 2014 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited: Servedio MR, Brandvain Y, Dhole S, Fitzpatrick CL, Goldberg EE, Stern CA, et al. (2014) Not Just a Theory--The Utility of Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Biology. PLoS Biol 12(12): e1002017. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002017 |
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