Tag: hormones
Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution
Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered.
On Delaying Puberty
The pituitary gland produces hormones that stimulate the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys.
Human Blood Flow — A Darwinian Explanation?
Physician Howard Glicksman explains the hugely complex blood flow systems required to keep us clear-headed and alive.
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums
It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim.
Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating
As the biomimetics movement accelerates, scientists keep providing more and more examples of intelligent design in organisms great and small.