Author: Evolution News
No Offense! “Bird Brain” Is a Compliment
Birds have brains as well equipped and organized as those of primates.
Oh, Deer: Mammals Use Magnetic Navigation, Too
Even deer know how to respond to the silent force surrounding the earth.
Defects on Purpose Make Butterfly Wings Shine
Highly ordered structures with “defect engineering” can enhance the properties of materials, including the wings of butterflies.
Intelligent Design Is a Protest Movement Against Homogenized Thought
Watch this parody of a TED talk. It’s very funny, and true, but also suggests a more serious point.
Is Genome Grammar Just a Figure of Speech?
A paper about DNA expression refers to its grammar and syntax. How far can we take the comparison to written text?