36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
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The Evolution of Sexual Selection
"It's about having a good hypothesis right if you have a good hypothesis then it's interesting even if it turns out that the hypothesis is not supported by the data" "I couldn't work in a context where people just sort of dump a load of data on my table on my desk and say what's the story go so what sets you off on the journey is the interesting paradox maybe the interesting idea," he says. 'The slime mold is already the narrative and who knows what it's going to find in all directions yeah no absolutely i would need to have a narrative or at least of a sort of fragmentary form going we wouldn't really expect this'
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