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Full Idea
It has been observed that there are apparently no scientific laws concerning biological species.
Gist of Idea
There are apparently no scientific laws concerning biological species
Source
Kathrin Koslicki (The Structure of Objects [2008], 8.4.1)
Book Ref
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.211
A Reaction
The central concept of biology I take to be a 'mechanism'. and I suspect that this view of science is actually applicable in physics and chemistry, with so-called 'laws' being a merely superficial description of what is going on.