Jumping Spider Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 3, 2023 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , abstractions, American Kennel Club, animals, bird song, birds, cats, cuttlefish, David M. Peña-Guzmán, dolphins, dreaming, horses, information, jumping spiders, learning, memory, rapid eye movement, sleep, Smithsonian Magazine, spiders, symbols, thought, whales Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism Denyse O’Leary October 3, 2023 Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›
taneli-lahtinen-754080-unsplash Type post Date June 6, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionReproductive Science Tagged , __k-review, bats, bird song, birds, chromosomes, clades, climate change, collagen, crocodilians, Current Biology, Darwinism, evolution, Flight, genome, Immune System, intelligence, light, mammals, Michael Gross, migration, phylogeny, PNAS, positive selection, syrinx, transcriptome Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light? Science and Culture June 6, 2019 Evolution, Reproductive Science 8 The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird song, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
