Darwin, nós temos um problema muito sério: não existe uma história verdadeira da vida - discordância de dados

Biology’s Einstein Moment: Specifying Lineal Frames of Reference and Rejecting Absolute Biological History

Thematic Issue Article

Open access Published: 03 February 2025

Matthew H. Haber

This is the only figure in On the Origin of Species (Darwin 1859). Darwin refers to it numerous times and for different levels of lineage. His presentation introduces a new units question, namely, what are the units of divergence and diversification in an evolutionary system

 

Abstract

We are currently in the midst of what I call biology’s Einstein moment. This is the rejection of absolute biological history, the idea that there is an invariant, privileged biological history against which other histories are measured or deviate from. Instead, biologists must specify theoretically and empirically motivated frames of lineal reference. This is already informing and advancing biological practice, theory, methods, and more, and is a significant and important feature of contemporary biology. Here I argue that it is worth identifying and naming this shift, and encouraging a deeper and broader embrace of it.

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Excerpt:

"Genealogical discordance like that described above is an important reason that phylogeneticists are moving away from the idea of an absolute phylogeny.”

WOW! Moving away from the idea of an absolute phylogeny? What is the true history of life?