Biology is awesome
| cool story bro
| Biology is a fake science - glorified catalogization of living organisms
| Everything outside of topic above is actually more fitting for other branches of science.
All biological processes are by definition the domain of physical chemistry and process engineering, for example.
| Ikr. There’s still time though gurl…
| Everything is MATH,
Checkmate, nerds
| im everything
| everything is just philosophy, including math
| Well, if you're still curious, you can still ask. I'm mostly a lurker, but I happen to have a PhD in a biology field, won't specify in order to not doxx myself, you know people these days. I'll answer to the best of my ability, and if not, I could always refer you to external sources.
| Biology is awesome. While math describes operations on information, and physics describes basic low-level patterns that emerge in our universe, biology describes higher-level units that form spontaneously out of these base laws. The science is mainly statistical in nature (classification based on common characteristics) but certainly useful if you're interested in why life is a self-propagating pattern.
| nerds are hot
| PhDs are hot
| Biology! Yeah!
| Depends on what you study, mostly. When it's things closely related to taxonomy, like phylogenetics, you work statistically, but the focus here is more "how similar they are and how likely it is that, at some point back in time, these things derived from the same stuff". But on things related to interactions, the focus changes. It becomes more of "On these conditions, how likely it is that what I found is chance, and if not, how would this fit a law of causality". Wide spectrum.
| >>1068184 Now this is a very big question. And a very interesting one, too, if we think about all forms of life as the current stage of multiple strategies developed with the sole purpose of replicating. Darwinism is often misunderstood following efforts to explain it in a simple manner, ironic, if you ask me. It's important to remember that every replication event, in essence, is a chance for mutations to happen, the process ain't perfect. And it's the environment that selects.
| So, considering it's less of "Adapt or die" and more of "Well, this idiot failed at replicating his own DN- wait you're not supposed to do that. No don't do that, stop, think of your peers! Or have 500 children. Yeah, propagate this new thing you can do that others can't, that's fine too", it's not really surprising to find radically different lifeforms in radically different environments, the selective pressures don't really match one another. It's a concept very worth thinking of
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
| >>1068246 shut the FUCK up clarke, what is known is NOT mundane and your bullshit only serves to make people into nihilistic automatons with no appreciation for the world around them!!
| Still fake science
| learn the difference between prescriptive and descriptive
| >>1068244 >>1068245 well even ascribing agency to the concept of evolution is going too far. It's a process that happens because it happens. Like the anthropic principle. If you place a bunch of pixels in random positions in "conway's game of life" you get propagating patterns which can move. You can imagine that if you scramble molecules often enough, eventually you get resilient ones. Which are more resilient? The ones that can replicate themselves. Thus "selection" occurs.
| >the answer is not to ask the question
| >>1068358 That's a pretty good way to summarize it, yes. The thing is, it's not always about direct competitive abilities, since mutations are random, there's the chance our study subject gains the ability to colonize new environments, and when you're alone, competing comes in second place, there's no competition. An interesting example is in bacteria, certain resistance mechanisms seem to derive from heavy metal efflux systems. A gain of function from an already existent one!
| >>1068150 >>1068141 >>1068161
You, g/u/rls, make me remember this https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png
| >relevant xkcd is relevant
| >>1068632
all the dom/sub relationship tropes that could be born from this informationary disciplines!
| which discipline has the largest body parts?
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| Wish I knew more. When I was a kid I had thousands of questions that no one would or could answer. If only I had someone I'm close by that could teach me I would probably grew up to work in the field but instead I'm pushing buttons for hours every day in order to pay rent.