Tag: Yasemin Saplakoglu
High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have.
New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”
It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons.
How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?
The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue.
Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror
Genetics is now a subset of epigenetics, in which multiple dynamic molecules play key roles in homeostasis.
Evidence of ETs? Delightful! Bring It On
Never fear: whatever our purely hypothetical response to a purely hypothetical event, it can be reconciled with evolution.