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pipistrelle
Photo credit: Dave, via Flickr (cropped).

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›
pipistrelle
Photo credit: Dave, via Flickr (cropped).

In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›
Scansoriopterygidae
Photo credit: i qi, Xu et al. 2015 fig. 1a, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›
honey bee
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What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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. Read More ›
brains
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When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together

In research, neuroscientists have found that co-operation results in brain wave synchrony. Read More ›
Scandentia
Photo: Eudaemonema webbi, after Scott 2010 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
click beetle
Photo: A click beetle, by Sarefo, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Engineering Ideas from Biology

The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC's Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas. Read More ›
zebrafish
Photo: Zebrafish, by Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

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 ›
Purgatorius
Photo: High resolution CT scans of fossilized teeth and jaw bones of Purgatorius mckeeveri material from UCMP, Gregory Wilson Mantilla / Stephen Chester, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›

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