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These sort of simulations, like much evolutionary biology, feel like they ought to come with a '... in mice' warning. We simulated 300 million years of evoluti
by lifeisstillgood 6y ago
These sort of simulations, like much evolutionary biology, feel like they ought to come with a '... in mice' warning.
We simulated 300 million years of evolution, using our own model, and proved that evolution happened because of ...
... in simulated mice ...
- vanderZwan 6y agoI'm sure the original paper has the equivalent of that, but yes, pop-science articles should start adding the IN MICE warning for sure. Also to many other categories of research findings, actually
- markdog12 6y agohttps://twitter.com/justsaysinmice https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoIt's even worse. At least we can compare and contrast mice and humans, but simulating evolution is incredibly arbitrary...
- badcede 6y agoWhen I read articles like this, it seems to me that they are studying not evolution, nor animals, but computers. These are really software projects. It is a chunk of the world that software has eaten, without it having much been recognized.