James-Tour Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date February 17, 2018 CategoriesEnvironment & ClimateEvolutionIntelligent DesignLife SciencesOrigin of Life Tagged , __cedited, bees, bias, conservation, debate, evolution, intelligent design, James Tour, pesticides, Phys.org, prebiotic chemistry, Research, Rice University, science, toxicity Toward Self-Scrutiny in Science Sarah Chaffee February 17, 2018 Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life 3 Think about how this kind of reasoning relates to the intelligent design and evolution debate. Read More ›
bee and flower Type post Author Brian Miller Date September 7, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignScience Tagged , __cedited, __image, algorithms, bees, BIO-Complexity, chlorophyll, coevolution, Conservation of Information, Darwinian evolution, fitness landscape, flowering plants, No Free Lunch theorems, pancakes, pollen, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert Conservation of Information and Coevolution: New BIO-Complexity Article by Ewert and Marks Brian Miller September 7, 2017 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science 6 Biologists often claim that coevolutionary interactions, as with bees and flowers, can alter the fitness landscape to drive evolutionary changes. Read More ›
bernie Type post Date August 5, 2016 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , __cedited, bees, bumblebees, Nature, optimization, Research, Science Flight of the Bumblebee Reveals Optimization at Multiple Levels Science & Culture August 5, 2016 Intelligent Design 7 A biological revolution is underway. Technology has allowed field biologists to track individual animals as small as insects. Read More ›
beee Type post Date June 24, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __cedited, bees, information, Nature, Research, Science For Bees, Static Electricity Is Information Science & Culture June 24, 2016 Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 New findings about electrical sensing in bumblebees hints at widespread signaling in the animal world using static charges. Read More ›
the-very-smart-dog-studying-old-books-in-library-stockpack-a-134696057-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date December 4, 2015 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __nedited, agency, altruism, animal behavior, animal intelligence, Animal Minds (series), bees, communication, ethology, evolutionary ethics, free will, grammar, group selection, jellyfish, reasoning, selfish genes What Can We Hope to Learn About Animal Minds? Denyse O’Leary December 4, 2015 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 11 If we can't even define our own consciousness, can we say whether a different type of life form has consciousness or a mind? Read More ›