I was led to this paper by an answer to this Stack Exchange answer: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/1999 https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/1999. The answer report

I was led to this paper by an answer to this Stack Exchange answer: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/1999 https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/1999. The answer reports that the mathematician Israel Gelfand wrote that: "Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology." As the answer describes Gelfand was very interested in what will later be called biomathematics, e.g. see this memoir by a colleague: https://www.israelmgelfand.com/bio_work/vasiliev_bio.html https://www.israelmgelfand.com/bio_work/vasiliev_bio.html. Although mathematical models are successful in understanding biological phenomena I'm curious if they play the same "unreasonable effectiveness" role as they play in physics, i.e. has any bio phenomena been discovered after being predicted based on purely theoretical models?