Gianluca Polgar

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What is the main goal of modeling, and maybe of scientific knowledge tout court?

While ideally aiming at understanding an empirical phenomenon, and at the same time predicting its behaviour, scientists often focus only on one of these two aspects. Is this the dilemma of a...

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Do molecular biologists use the term 'substitution rate' consistently, when discuss the calibration of a molecular clock?

In a molecular phylogeny of fishes produced using a cytb marker of 704 bp, Sota et al. (2005) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15684588) calibrated an ML clock tree with a node corresponding to...

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