Tag: nerve cells
Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions
Imagine the New York Public Library cutting every manual in half daily, or more often, and sending every month entire halves to a library in London.
Darwin Double-Crossed: The Design of the Human Nervous System
Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting.
Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New
Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought.
This Didn’t Evolve a Few Mutations at a Time
Let’s have a look at an example: nerve cells and their action potential signals.
Early Complexity: An Evolutionary Case Study
Amoebas contain hundreds of times more DNA than humans, and this “just didn’t make sense.”
