Dustin Marshall
@djmmeeg.bsky.social
Biologist at Monash University interested in size, energy and life history
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Dustin Marshall
@djmmeeg.bsky.social
· May 23
Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social our paper “Second Thoughts about First Principles in Biology.” www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... . We are in favour of first principles approaches in biology but we think that we need to do better in how we use them.
Second thoughts about first principles in biology
First-principles approaches, based on physics or chemistry, are key pillars of biological
theory. Despite their value, there are recurrent problems with many first-principles
approaches in biology: th...
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What if your own theory was tricking you? What if the theory your research was based on was just a “Clever Hans”? Out today in TREE, we explore this problem and more. In this 🧵 I will elaborate the Clever Hans problem in biological theory.