models from engineering tend to make wildly unrealistic assumptions to get to a reasonable conclusion, e.g. the spherical cow this seems frowned upon in Biolo

models from engineering tend to make wildly unrealistic assumptions to get to a reasonable conclusion, e.g. the spherical cow this seems frowned upon in Biology, but then at least you are invited to fix your analogy later on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow