Michal Hubálek: A Brief (Hi)Story of Just-So Stories in Evolutionary Science 2020
Just-so storytelling is an epistemic concept that significantly shapes evolutionary-biological discourse.
We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don’t see electrons, gravity, or black holes either). (Gould 1989, 279)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0048393120944223
Just-so storytelling is an epistemic concept that significantly shapes evolutionary-biological discourse.
We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don’t see electrons, gravity, or black holes either). (Gould 1989, 279)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0048393120944223
