On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?

Biology has so far had difficulties formulating general laws akin to physics and chemistry. Evolution and its propensity to reduce entropy could become a start for such laws in biology. [Image: see text]

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Autor principal: Rull, Valentí
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
Materias:
Science & Society
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35285145
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202154392
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spelling pubmed-89825762022-04-15 On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry? Rull, Valentí EMBO Rep Science & Society Biology has so far had difficulties formulating general laws akin to physics and chemistry. Evolution and its propensity to reduce entropy could become a start for such laws in biology. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8982576/ /pubmed/35285145 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202154392 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title_full On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title_fullStr On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title_full_unstemmed On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title_short On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
title_sort on predictions and laws in biological evolution: is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?
topic Science & Society
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35285145
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202154392
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