Tag: crabs

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, amphibians, animal rights, bees, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, cognition, consciousness, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Dan Falk, eliminative materialism, fish, fungal mind, insects, lobsters, memory, My Octopus Teacher, nature rights, Nautilus, New York University, octopuses, Phys.org, Quanta, reptiles, sentience, squid, Thomas Nagel}

What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Much will be learned from a more careful analysis of the behavior of life forms, which will likely turn up many more instances of unexpected sentience. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, Christof Koch, consciousness, crabs, Francis Crick, hard problem of consciousness, John Horgan, Kristin Andrews, materialism, mind, nervous system, neuroscience, panpsychism, philosophers, physiology, theists, York University}

Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cephalopod, convergent evolution, crabs, evolution, Germany, human eye, intelligence, iris, lens, lobsters, Nautilus, octopuses, optic nerves, photoreceptors, retina, squid}

Octopus Intelligence Poses Evolutionary Convergence Conundrum

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Outstandingly bright — with eyes that strikingly resemble ours — yet their ancestors split from mammals and birds 600 million years ago. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bees, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Deborah M. Gordon, emotion, entomologists, Eric Cassell, insects, intelligent design, invertebrates, lobsters, locusts, neuroscience, octopuses, praying mantis, predators, snails, squid, University of Minnesota, vertebrates}

Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 29, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, cats, crabs, Dogs, Emory University, emotions, evolution, Frans de Waal, intelligence, Kristin Andrews, lab rats, Nautilus, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, seafood, shells, squid}

Researchers Ask — Serious Question — Do Crabs Have Emotions?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 29, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Recent research has created some unexpected ethical problems for the seafood industry. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, crabs, crustaceans, evolution, learning, lobsters, memory, octopuses, ships, shrimp, stress, Swansea University}

Can Crabs Think? Can Lobsters Feel?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2021

Evolution

3}

What about shrimp? Their brains turn out to have memory and learning centers, which has triggered an evolution squabble. Read More ›

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post

Date
October 19, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 3D printing, amoeba, beetles, chick, crabs, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, embryonic development, eukaryotes, evolution, functional whole, Harvard University, Hydra, Illustra Media, information, Information Technology, intelligent design, liver, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, octopuses, paramecium, Stentor, The Scientist, Tufts University, Undeniable (book), Wyss Institute}

Morphogenesis: Coding for Shape

_{Science and Culture
October 19, 2020

Anatomy, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How do you get a 3-D shape from a linear code? That is the puzzle of morphogenesis. Read More ›

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Date
November 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cilia, Cnidaria, cognitive capacity, comb jellies, crabs, crustaceans, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Current Biology, Darwin's Black Box, fossil record, honeycomb, jellyfish, lobsters, Michael Behe, mollusks, nacre, Porifera, Precambrian, shrimp, Swansea University, The Edge of Evolution, Tohoku University, University of Michigan}

Design in the First Animals

_{Science and Culture
November 27, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system. Read More ›