Research just for the sake of knowing stuff has over and over again led to completely unexpected practical benefits. Understanding why things are the way they are lets us know how they might change in the future. ‘Just so stories’ about evolution are bad: empirically informed evolutionary modelling and theorizing: good.
Research just for the sake of knowing stuff has over and over again led to completely unexpected practical benefits. Understanding why things are the way they are lets us know how they might change in the future. ‘Just so stories’ about evolution are bad: empirically informed evolutionary modelling and theorizing: good.