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...

11 November 2017 5,586 6 View

Are you aware of studies on naturally (acidic) vs. anthropogenically (acidified) low pH estuaries?

The question revolves around the concept of acidification of estuaries, as an ecological process which may be induced by human activities. In tropical conditions, high rainfall, heat and high...

02 February 2015 1,805 4 View

I want to make a list of living actinopterygian vertebrates exhibiting limbs' (paired fins') secondary losses (finlessness) - any thoughts?

To make it simpler, it would suffice to list the families including finless (= without pectoral and/or pelvic fins) members (or taxa of higher level, if all the included families include finless...

11 November 2013 8,528 5 View