One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher

Re:One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Camb... by gus_massa on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:33AM (#22615853)

This is about the comparison of terrestrial mammal species and marine mammal species, and how many subspecies each one has.

They have to model how the natural and artificial barriers in each environment produce subpopulations that are isolated enough to produce subspecies. And compare the simulations of the models with the data of real mammal species to see if they have similar results. This is not so close to pure math.

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Re:One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Camb... by 0thgen on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:08AM (#22616183)

to follow up on gus_massa's point, it's not the "math" of an evolutionary thoery/agorithm that's being "proved" here; it's the assertion that it "proves" something about the environment it's trying to model

and saying you've "proved" something about natural events is probably bad practice

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