Tag: foresight
How Earth is Designed for Human Technology
Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke.
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
Sex: Engineered for Success
Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system?
No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology.
The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering
It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.