Tag: respiration
Do Human Embryos Have Gills?
Jonathan Wells provide quotes from leading embryologists discussing how pharyngeal folds in humans only have an “illusory” similarity to fish gills.
Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence
Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life.
What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?
As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles.
For a Technological Civilization, We Must Have Metals
It is very doubtful that any beings in the universe could develop a civilization remotely comparable with our own without the use of metals.
For Fire, Our Planet Is Just the Right Size
Self-evidently, the gravity on the surface of a planet limits the maximum size of large terrestrial organisms.