A User’s Guide to Metaphors In Ecology and Evolution

2019/04/15 by Mark E. Olson, Alfonso Arroyo‐Santos, Alfonso Arroyo-Santos +2 · 1 voice · 12 citations
Environmental Science · Psychology · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Animal and Plant Science Education #Genetic diversity and population structure

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.03.001

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Discussions

• “A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification” I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use [bsky, 14 points, 1 comments]