Tag: Metamorphosis
Butterfly Wings Become Design Templates
No insect has the capacity to plan out its photonic crystals, wings, antennae, compound eyes or other elaborate structures. Much less so does natural selection.
Metamorphosis: The Reminder
Don’t forget Saturday night’s premiere.
Metamorphosis Will Have Northwest Premiere in Seattle, Saturday, August 13
Metamorphosis gorgeously documents the beauty and mystery of butterflies. Are they the products of a blind, undirected process? Or were they intelligently designed?
Butterfly Patterns: Convergent Evolution or Design?
Recently a single gene was found responsible for the red colors in one butterfly genus. Does this strengthen the case for convergent evolution, or any kind of evolution?
How Butterfly Wings Display Brilliant Colors
Ever wonder how butterflies flash brilliant colors from their wings? It’s not done with pigment. Instead, butterflies use a trick of light that sounds like something out of Star Trek: “photonic crystals.”