Tag: antennae

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, antennae, arthropods, bees, bioelectricity, caterpillar, Current Biology, electrical charge, evolution, flowering plants, foresight, information, insects, intelligent design, pollinators, sensory hairs, wasp}

Biological Information in Static Electricity

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2024

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

The influence of static charge in pollination is one demonstrable case — not only for bees, but for moths and hummingbirds as well. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, Basilosaurus, beetles, Collembola, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, K/Pg impact event, larvae, living fossils, Myanmar, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, psychoanalysis, unguided evolution, Wired}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, annelids, antennae, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Period, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, crustaceans, earthworms, eyes, fishing, food, GUT, legs, Michael Denton, mud dragons, muscles, NASA, nerves, Penn State, Privileged Species, roundworms, scalidophorans, soil, termites, underground, University of Birmingham, worms}

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aeschnidiidae, antennae, Brazil, Crato limestone, dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, larvae, legs}

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, antennae, Baltic amber, Darwinism, Eocene Epoch, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, nested hierarchy, phylogenetics, scales, thorax}

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

_{Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Agouti, agriculture, algorithms, ant colony, antennae, anternet, ants, brains, cities, computer, computer programmers, Deborah M. Gordon, E.O. Wilson, eggs, evolutionary biologists, foraging, humans, intelligent design, larvae, mammals, neurons, neuroscience, pheromones, slavery, Stanford University, superorganism}

Yes, Ants Think — Like Computers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 4, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Computer programmers have adapted some ant problem-solving methods to software programs (but without the need for complex chemical scents). Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behavior, antennae, butterflies, Canada, circadian clock, compound eyes, evolution, genomes, intelligent design, latitude, lepidopterology, magnetic compass, Mexico, migration, milkweed, monarch butterfly, navigation, neurobiology, Stonehenge, sun compass, United States}

For Evolution, Monarch Butterfly Migration Is a Mystery

_{Eric Cassell
November 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

It typically takes up to three generations of butterflies to make the complete journey. This means that the navigation information is genetically programmed. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 27, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, antennae, bioRxiv, cilia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, computer science, Current Biology, evolution, Illustra Media, Living Waters, mosquitos, NIH, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, pheromones, physiology, Salk Institute, smell, The Scientist, University of Montreal, University of Washington}

Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2019

Intelligent Design

7}

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Anomalocaris, antennae, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, functional whole, Fuxianhuia protensa, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Marrella, PNAS, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, Wikipedia}

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2018

Evolution

7}

True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›