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Well, from a philosophical point of view you might say that it's impossible. The idea of laws that can apply to e.g. mathematics might not apply to organisms be
by mathieuh 2y ago
Well, from a philosophical point of view you might say that it's impossible. The idea of laws that can apply to e.g. mathematics might not apply to organisms because organisms are described in terms of teleology. The heart doesn't just happen to circulate blood, it beats in order to circulate blood to oxygenate the body and so on.
And just because, for example, organisms that live in cold climates generally have thick hair, having thick hair doesn't imply cold climates. Some mammals fill niches filled by birds in other ecosystem, or by fish in others. Likewise in New Zealand they have birds filling niches that in other ecosystems are filled by mammals.
I'm not sure biology can be a purely inductive science.