生物学涉及规律，没有规律是不可想象的。

IF 1.3 4区生物学 Q3 BIOLOGY

Theory in Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1007/s12064-023-00384-2

Richard Creath

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有一种古老的企图，把科学分为法律科学和历史科学。最近，约翰·比蒂(John Beatty)将二者区分开来，认为生物学是一门历史科学，并主张不存在真正的生物学定律。这篇论文表明确实存在生物规律，特别是统计规律，特别是在进化理论中。此外，生物学的所有或几乎所有其他领域也都涉及规律。甚至历史也涉及法律。最后，这篇论文表明，这种规律的普遍性与那些像比蒂这样声称生物学只是历史的人的最基本的承诺是相容的。

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Biology as involving laws and inconceivable without them.

There is an old attempt to divide the sciences into sciences of laws and the historical sciences. More recently, John Beatty has drawn the distinction so that biology is a historical science and urged that there are no genuinely biological laws. This paper shows that there are indeed biological laws, specifically statistical ones, notably in evolutionary theory. Moreover, all or almost all other areas of biology involve laws as well. Even history involves laws. Finally, the paper shows that this pervasiveness of laws is compatible with the most basic commitments of those who, like Beatty, would claim that biology is only historical.

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Theory in Biosciences 生物-生物学

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： Theory in Biosciences focuses on new concepts in theoretical biology. It also includes analytical and modelling approaches as well as philosophical and historical issues. Central topics are: Artificial Life; Bioinformatics with a focus on novel methods, phenomena, and interpretations; Bioinspired Modeling; Complexity, Robustness, and Resilience; Embodied Cognition; Evolutionary Biology; Evo-Devo; Game Theoretic Modeling; Genetics; History of Biology; Language Evolution; Mathematical Biology; Origin of Life; Philosophy of Biology; Population Biology; Systems Biology; Theoretical Ecology; Theoretical Molecular Biology; Theoretical Neuroscience & Cognition.