Tag: human body
Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?
Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly.
At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time
At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit.
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.
“Designed for [a] Purpose” — Heme Production Defeats Evolution
Hemoglobin is well known as the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood, but its precursor, heme, is lesser known.
CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches
In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days.