Lexicon of Arguments

 

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"Kinship"/biology: can only be determined by comparisons! (VsPhysicists, who dispute the science of biology).
>Comparisons, >Comparability, >Systems, >Theories, >Science,
>Laws of Nature, >Physics.
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Biology: expression coined around 1800 by Lamarck.
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1870: Division:
a) Biology of evolutionary causes (research by comparisons and conclusions)
b) biology of immediate causes, (experiments and physiology)
With the discovery that the cell mechanisms in plants and animals are the same, the old separation between botany and zoology seemed no longer useful. Practically all molecular processes are the same.
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Misleading classification: descriptive - functional - experimental biology.
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E.g. Homology/Mayr: Relationship between species and higher taxa is shown by the occurrence of homologous characteristics. That is, a feature that is derived from the same feature of its next common ancestor.
>Features/Mayr, >Homology.
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One always has to conclude homology!
For homology there are many proofs, e.g. position of a structure in relation to other structures, also transitional forms with fossil ancestors.