Tag: Eric Cassell
Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution
Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive.
Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes
The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size.
Watch: Animal Algorithms and the Bluff of Darwinism
Human navigation technology is just catching up to what animals like these can do by instinct.
Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design
What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors?
Animal Algorithms: Desert Ants and Honey Bees
Eric Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome.