Tag: zygote
If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?
How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development?
Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization
So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life?
Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism
Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling.
To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan
What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter.
Why Should a Baby Live?
My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.