Tag: biology
How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans.
Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)
What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals.
Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous
These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way.
Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic
Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.”
The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down
The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale.