Tag: humans
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.
Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders.
Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed
The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed.