On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:15:15 -0700, John Harshman
<
john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/15/23 9:56 AM, Pandora wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 06:25:43 -0700, John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/15/23 3:23 AM, Popping Mad wrote:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605082950.htm
Paleontologists don't use mathematics?
Yeah right, never heard of the nonparametric difficulty measure?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35784-3
I wonder what S. J. Gould, Dave Raup, Jack Sepkoski, etc., would say
about this if they were still around?
Those were the days when you could generate every possible shellshape,
from gastropod and bivalve to ammonoid, with a circular generating
curve and just three parameters (W, D, T).
But those were also the days of Sokal and Sneath (Numerical Taxonomy)
and the translation of Willi Hennig in English.
Or plenty of paleontologists who
are actually with us, like Mike Foote, John Alroy, etc., etc.
Maybe this is just another example of university press release hype.
We used to think that every science is ultimately a branch of physics,
but Galileo was right, every science is ultimately a branch of
mathematics, ever more sophisticated.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)