Sentences with phrase «biology as an explanation»

They may go even further, citing the competitive exclusion principle in evolutionary biology as an explanation for why such behaviour is actually a norm for society, generally.

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(Usually, in the science / religion context, this phrase designates a regulative principle that Artigas himself not only endorses but regards as «trivially» obvious: «You should not introduce divine action as an explanation in problems of physics or biology.»)

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

Or consider the explanations for religious belief proposed by evolutionary psychologists, now recognised by most philosophers of biology as involving more theoretical assumptions than empirical evidence.

What I'd like people to take a way from all this is that the theory provides us a way of testing when biology is necessary as part of your explanation.

Scientifically, some sort of explanation as to the sequence of events is expected at the mechanistic levels of eg physics, chemistry or biology.

In the modern world, we tend to downplay ideologies and their importance and like to focus on biology, economics, or sociology as explanations.