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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) are allegorically like distinct species due to isolation and differing survival needs. This divergence is a natural scientific process, difficult to reverse.

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Area of Science:

Behavioral science
Psychology

Background:

Recent commentaries highlight the growing isolation between Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Authors suggest EAB and ABA researchers face distinct survival requirements and possess divergent skill sets.

Purpose of the Study:

To present an allegory comparing the EAB-ABA relationship to biological speciation.
To explore the parallels between factors driving biological speciation and changes in the EAB-ABA relationship.

Main Methods:

An allegorical comparison using the framework of biological speciation.
Analysis of isolation, differential survival contingencies, and adaptive characteristic divergence between EAB and ABA.

Main Results:

The conditions altering the EAB-ABA relationship mirror those of biological speciation: isolation, different survival contingencies, and divergent adaptive characteristics.
Trivial interaction between EAB and ABA groups suggests they are allegorically distinct species.

Conclusions:

The divergence between EAB and ABA is a natural, evolutionary process within science, analogous to speciation.
Reversing this scientific divergence is unlikely due to its natural progression.