Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Reciprocal illumination

Apparently, a number of people were more familiar with this phrase than I was...which is to say I had never heard it used before.

In general, it is used to denote the idea that different disciplines can inform one another and help generate advances collectively.

One use is:
http://evolvethought.blogspot.com/2005/02/reciprocal-illumination-of.html

It seems to be a more common term in phylogenetics.

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