Assertion: evolution's theory | /r/CapableOf | gain its insights
Facets:
value: by statistical work
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Just as Darwin’s own theory of evolution by natural selection remained largely conjectural until supplemented by empirical work showing how inheritance worked, and by statistical work focusing on the population-level consequences of inheritance, selection, mutation and other forces, so cultural evolutionary theory has gained its insights from a similar combination of empirical and mathematical approaches.