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Spiders and Worms and Insects — Oh My! Creepy, Crawly Complexity at ID Education Day

This in-person event is a perfect field trip opportunity for students to engage with scientists and ID experts. Read More ›
Cataglyphis fortis
Photo credit: Markus Knaden, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology.

Ants Build Landmarks for Navigation

The difficulty of finding your way back home from a long distance is partly solved in a tiny ant’s brain. Read More ›
Animal Algorithms
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How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40. Read More ›
leafcutter ants
Photo: Leafcutter ants in the Wilhelma Zoo, Germany, by Pjt56 [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Amazing Insect Colonies vs. Evolution

How could a mindless evolutionary process have evolved these sophisticated colonies? Read More ›

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