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A User's Guide to Metaphors In Ecology and Evolution

机译:用户指南生态和演化中的隐喻

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Biologists energetically debate terminology in ecology and evolution, but rarely discuss general strategies for resolving these debates. We suggest focusing on metaphors, arguing that, rather than looking down on metaphors, biologists should embrace these terms as the powerful tools they are. Like any powerful tool, metaphors need to be used mindful of their limitations. We give guidance for recognizing metaphors and summarize their major limitations, which are hiding of important biological detail, ongoing vagueness rather than increasing precision, and seeming real rather than figurative. By keeping these limitations in mind, metaphors like adaptive radiation, adaptive landscape, biological invasion, and the ecological niche can be used to their full potential, powering scientific insight without driving research off the rails.
机译:生物学家在生态和进化中努力辩论术语,但很少讨论解决这些辩论的一般策略。 我们建议侧重于隐喻,争论,而不是俯视隐喻,生物学家应该将这些术语与他们所在的强大工具相提并论。 像任何强大的工具一样,隐喻需要注意他们的局限性。 我们为认可隐喻提供指导并总结其主要限制,这些主要限制是掩藏重要的生物细节,持续模糊,而不是提高精度,看起来真实而不是比喻。 通过保持这些局限性,类似于自适应辐射,自适应景观,生物入侵等隐喻,并且生态利基可用于它们的全部潜力,提供科学洞察力,而不驾驶轨道。

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