Tag: whales
Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders.
From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model
Ewert’s model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses.
Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke
Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent?
Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course
How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism?
From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition
Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.”