Tag: RNA
What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?
None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don’t.
RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System
Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms.
Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity
It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic.
The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place
“Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells.”
An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science
The story the public is told is contrary to evidence but scientists have to keep telling it because otherwise the wrong people might benefit.