Tag: mathematics
Darwin on Trial: The Implications for Neuroscience and Ethics
Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not.
From Conception to Birth: The Math and the Marvel
Mathematician and medical image maker Alexander Tsiaras offers a stunning visualization.
Evolution Is a Movie Running Backward
That is what makes it so different from other phenomena in our universe, and why it demands a very different sort of explanation.
A Mathematician Explains the Irreducible Complexity of Metamorphosis
In my 2000 Mathematical Intelligencer article “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution,” I compared the development of the genetic code of life with the development of a computer program, such as my finite element code PDE2D.
We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education
To “poor-mouth” means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people.