Tag: dolphins
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price
Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form “play a significant role” in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions.
Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders.
From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model
Ewert’s model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses.
Ovid in His Exile
Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments.