Tag: Human
Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design
Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.
Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs
The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death.
Geneticist: On Human-Chimp Genome Similarity, There Are “Predictions” Not “Established Fact”
Richard Buggs gives us a look inside the sausage factory where figures on the subject are calculated.
Should EMTs Save a Human or a Dog First?
Bioethicists never cease to entertain — if some of the dangerous views pushed by this mainstream movement can be considered “entertaining.”
Explaining Human Mathematical Ability — Three Evolutionary Hypotheses
Humans have many unique cognitive abilities apart from language.