Tag: humans
Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link
The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.”
More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ
Underlying the significant differences in brain — to say nothing of the vast difference in mind — is a genetic mystery.
Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?
The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds
Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper.
Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart
There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design.