A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology examines the question of what Darwinism is and how its nonscientific uses relate to the scientific theory of evolution.

“Nonscientific information has been published as scientific information, and it is still out there,” she says.

So Elicit and others use existing open-source LLMs trained on a wide array of texts, many nonscientific.

Nonscientific, she says, because although scientists had devised various theories to resolve the mystery, few were ever tested.

“Purring has historically had a complex, nonscientific explanation,” says Bonnie Beaver, a veterinary scientist at Texas A&M University who wasn’t involved in the study.