Does any one have any examples of circular reasoning in ecology or evolution that was eventually righted by the field? Like, we all thought this, but then we realized it was a tautology? 🧪 #PhilosophyOfScience

Is that a part of the critique of just-so stories? “Things are like they are because they were selected for.” “How do you know they were selected?” “They must have been selected for because things are like they are.”