Category: Life Sciences | Page 95 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, behavior, fish, hippocampus, homeostasis, information, intelligent design, mammals, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, place cells, Research, self, zebrafish}

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

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January 18, 2023

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, alligators, anole lizard, asteroid, birds, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, lizards, mammals, NASA, octopuses, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, theropod, Tyrannosaurus rex, Vanderbilt University}

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

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January 17, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Read More ›

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Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
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, Charles Darwin, evolution, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeons, physicians, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

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January 17, 2023

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Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
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, atheism, Discovery Institute, Engineering Research Group, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, intelligent design, physicians, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Steve Laufmann, Wesley Smith, Your Design Body}

Wesley J. Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

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January 14, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

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Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Read More ›

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Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Technology
Tagged
, bureaucracy, Elon Musk, John Horgan, NASA, Nature (journal), PubMed, Research, Rob Sheldon, Scientific American, The End of Science, Tibi Puiu, University of Minnesota}

Is the End of Science Near?

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January 12, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Technology

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A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, convergent evolution, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian mechanism, dolphins, elephants, evolution, foresight, fur, genes, hairlessness, Human, humans, intelligent design, mammals, planning, Science Alert, selection pressure, University of Pittsburgh}

More Evolution by Devolution: Mammalian Hairlessness

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January 11, 2023

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The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, complexity, fish, gills, Illustra Media, intelligent design, ions, Joseph Condeelis, Journal of Experimental Biology, kidneys, Lad Allen, life cycle, Living Waters, muscles, navigation, nerve cells, nerves, Nobel Prize, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, potassium, PubMed, salmon, senses, sodium, spawning, University of New Mexico, urine}

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

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January 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Americas, archeology, Brazil, capuchin monkeys, charcoal, hominins, humans, Ice Age, Kenya, lunar calendar, Michael Haslam, monkeys, Nature (journal), paintings, tools}

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

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January 11, 2023

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The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, defendants, free will, humans, moral agency, morality, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, responsibility}

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

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January 6, 2023

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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bristle worms, brown algae, conservation of function, corals, Daily Mail, evolution, fish, intelligent design, lunar cycle, Moon, moonlight, Nature Communications, polychaetes, Smithsonian Magazine, sunlight, turtles, worms}

Animals Tune Behavior by Lunar Cycle; but How?

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January 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle. Read More ›