"Descriptive" in science is a pejorative, almost always preceded by "merely," and typically applied to the array of classical -ologies and -omies: anatomy, archaeology, astronomy, embryology, morphology, paleontology, taxonomy, botany, cartography, stratigraphy, and the various disciplines of zoology, to name a few. () First, an organism, object, or substance is not described in a vacuum, but rather in comparison with other organisms, objects, and substances. () Second, descriptive science is not necessarily low-tech science, and high tech is not necessarily better. () Finally, a theory is only as good as what it explains and the evidence (i.e., descriptions) that supports it.〔(BioScience Volume 57, Issue 8 (September 2007) ) article ''Why Descriptive Science Still Matters'' by D.A. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel〕