http://benndragon.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] benndragon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] cos 2011-12-04 07:12 pm (UTC)

In my junior year of college I discovered Marder's Law: Any big binary argument in biology will end up with "both are correct" (a historical example being electrical vs. chemical for how neurons transmit information).

(BTW, I named this law for the professor who pointed this out in the narrow example mentioned above; AFAIK there isn't an general law about this, which could mean that I'm wrong about how often this happens)

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