Archetype

Counterintuition in Biology

Over at Evolving Thoughts, the mighty white gorilla from the Antipodes (that sometimes goes under the nom de plume John Wilkins) has paused from his grand World Tour 2009 to write a nice and succinct reflection on the nature of concepts and definitions in Biology. He writes:

We ought not to think that a conception or definition or hypothesis that works in one part of biology must work in all others, and yet biologists themselves often behave as if this were true. That is another challenge: why is this? The answer, I believe, is that biology is both highly diverse, and also massive.

Read the rest in his post: Counterintuition: Bdelloid Rotifers « Evolving Thoughts.

Tags: John Wilkins, Species concepts

2 Comments to Counterintuition in Biology

1

John Wilkins
October 1, 2009

Sounds like a really clever guy. I know I’d buy his book…

2

Roberto Keller
October 2, 2009

Well, at least clever enough to get some free advertisement…