Why are we not evaluating multiple competing hypotheses in ecology and evolution?

Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact

(2016) R. Sinatra et al.   SCIENCE

Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work

(2015) Raphael Silberzahn et al.   NATURE

Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

(2015) Robert MacCoun et al.   NATURE

How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

(2015) Regina Nuzzo   NATURE

Pvalues, hypothesis testing, and model selection: it's déjà vu all over again1

(2014) Aaron M. Ellison et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence in biology and the conditions of success

(2013) Jacob Stegenga   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

(2013) Thomas C. Scott-Phillips et al.   EVOLUTION

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Teaching Creative Science Thinking

(2011) R. L. DeHaan   SCIENCE

AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons

(2010) Kenneth P. Burnham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Complexity and the problem of ill-posed questions in ecology

(2010) Craig Loehle   Ecological Complexity

Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals

(2009) A. D. Davidson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of superstitious and superstition-like behaviour

(2008) K. R Foster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES