Don't Throw the Baby Iguana Out With the Bathwater.

The article focuses on the quality of animat modeling approach in adaptive behavior (AB) to clarify the way that models can achieve greater biological relevance. It notes the models that explore how neural mechanism support a particular function including models of specific brain systems, sensory and motor coding in neural populations, and individual neurons. It mentions the potential of the empirical verifiability of models to be replaced in conflict with explanatory power.