Tag: sperm
Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down
I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice.
The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization.
Sex: Engineered for Success
Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system?
No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology.
Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.