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Some of the biggest questions about life are also the hardest to answer using traditional experimental methods. How did life begin? How did multicellular organisms arise? What are the major transitions in evolution? Why is life so diverse? What might life on other planets be like? These and other big questions deal with processes that occur on massive time and spatial scales. Without a time machine, we cannot directly test our ideas about them empirically. The same problem is faced in other fields of research, from astronomy and geophysics to archaeology and palaeontology.
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G. Green, D., Klomp, N., Rimmington, G., Sadedin, S. (2006). VIRTUAL WORLDS. In: Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4287-6_9
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