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Two of biology’s greatest theories completely predate direct experimental evidence. Tracing their origins could help us understand how to make the next ones.

Biology is often seen as a primarily experimental science, with theory serving merely to generalize patterns from empirical data. But history reveals that theory plays a more generative role in the process of biological discovery itself.

How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.

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