Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48946#.VJjZScCAM4 Author(s) Ray Greek Affiliation(s) Americans For Medical Advancement, Goleta, USA . ABSTRACT The notion that animals could be used as predictive models in science has been influenced by relatively recent developments in the fields of complexity science, evolutionary and developmental biology, genetics, and evolutionary biology in general. Combined with empirical evidence, which has led scientists in drug development to acknowledge that a new, nonanimal model is needed, a theory—not a hypothesis—has been formed to explain why animals function well as models for humans at lower levels of organization...
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