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work_i7vjoaqyibcbrnftzqlu7uaaxq	Anya Plutynski	Modeling Evolution in Theory and Practice	2001	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5659	454	53	evolutionary biology to argue that the demarcation between theory and practice, or mathematical and laboratory models function as plausibility arguments, existence In particular, I take a closer look at the use of models in the practice of evolutionary biology. identity of structure between theory and data model is inadequate to describe the ways in which many models are deployed in evolutionary biology. appropriated the semantic view as a way to describe the structure of evolutionary theory. Mathematical and material models are deployed as arguments that some process or mechanism could be at work in nature. Mathematical or computer simulation models can function as tests of theoretical questions in the same way as do laboratory experiments. Rice and Salt constructed a laboratory model similar to Lenski's which they claim demonstrates the effectiveness of speciation in sympatry, i.e., within an interbreeding population. sense, a laboratory experiment functions in the same way as some theoretical or mathematical models in population genetics.	./cache/work_i7vjoaqyibcbrnftzqlu7uaaxq.pdf	./txt/work_i7vjoaqyibcbrnftzqlu7uaaxq.txt