O'Malley, Maureen A. and Parke, Emily C. (2018) Microbes, mathematics, and models. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Microbial model systems have a long history of fruitful use in fields that include evolution and ecology. In order to develop further insight into modelling practice, we examine how the competitive exclusion and coexistence of competing species have been modelled mathematically and materially over the course of a long research history. In particular, we investigate how microbial models of these dynamics interact with mathematical or computational models of the same phenomena. Our cases illuminate the ways in which microbial systems and equations work as models, and what happens when they generate inconsistent findings about shared targets. We reveal an iterative strategy of comparative modelling in different media, and suggest reasons why microbial models have a special degree of epistemic tractability in multimodel inquiry.
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| Additional Information: | Preprint: Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Models; experimental systems; microbial model systems; competitive exclusion; coexistence; robustness analysis | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Emily Parke | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2018 22:47 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2018 22:47 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 14864 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | 2018 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14864 |
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