Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social our paper “Second Thoughts about First Principles in Biology.” www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... . We are in favour of first principles approaches in biology but we think that we need to do better in how we use them.
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First-principles approaches, based on physics or chemistry, are key pillars of biological
theory. Despite their value, there are recurrent problems with many first-principles
approaches in biology: th...
