Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 122(23)

Опубликована: Май 23, 2025

Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of new principles evolution that have somehow eluded over a century work evolutionary biologists, going so far as elevate their ideas same stature fundamental laws physics. These claims been made in apparent absence any awareness theoretical framework biology has existed for decades. The numerical indices being promoted suffer from numerous conceptual quantitative problems, point devoid meaning, with authors even failing recognize distinction between mutation selection. Moreover, promulgators these base arguments on idea natural selection is relentless pursuit increasing organismal complexity, despite evidence support this plenty pointing opposite direction. Evolutionary embraces interdisciplinary thinking, but there no reason why field should be subject levels unsubstantiated speculation would unacceptable other area science.

Язык: Английский