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Models and experiments? An exploration

Review of Michael Weisberg’s Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World, Oxford, 2013.

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  1. This view was only overturned with exhaustively detailed studies of selection in nature, beginning with observational work on large versus small-beaked finches beginning in the late 1970s, and best represented in the work of the Grants and their students on Daphne Major (Grant 1986, Wiener 1994).

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Wimsatt, W.C. Models and experiments? An exploration. Biol Philos 30, 293–298 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9451-1

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