Comment on Significance of Compression Rate Method

Sun, 30 May 2010 21:05:56 GMT

Of the examples given, some of them certainly involve controled experiments in the classical sense. Evolutionary biology for example involves tests of genetic drift and speciation in the lab environment. For example, one matter that has been extensively tested in labs is different speciation mechanisms. The founder-effect mechanism is one that is particularly easy to test in a lab. For one major paper on the subject see this paper. A much older example is speciation by hybridization which has been tested in controlled lab environments for about a century now. The oldest I'm aware of in that regard is a 1912 paper by Digby (I haven't read it, and I'd have to go look up the citation but it shouldn't be hard to find ), and there have been many papers since then on the same topic.

Edit:Citation for Digby according to TOA is Digby, L. 1912. The cytology of Primula kewensis and of other related Primula hybrids. Ann. Bot. 26:357-388.

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