Tag: fruit flies
Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water
From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change.
Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain
Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies.
Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology
Are biological mechanisms optimized, or do they function poorly, evidence of their “poor design”?
Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined
Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception.
Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness.