Tag: entomology

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, analogy, animal behavior, ants, beetles, behavior, brains, electronic circuits, entomology, hummingbirds, microinsects, miniaturization, Neural Networks, neurons, nucleus, semiconductors, synapses, wasps}

By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects

_{Eric Cassell
January 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

10}

Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antenna, compound eyes, development, entomology, evolution, eyes, Flight, fruit flies, gene expression, human mind, insects, intelligent design, lift, motor neurons, Nature Communications, Queen Mary University London, senses, thrust, wings}

Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems

_{David Coppedge
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, caterpillars, Darwinian theory, entomology, evolution, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, larvae, Metamorphosis, prolegs}

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, common descent, crown group, Darwinian evolution, entomology, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, monophyly, morphology, Neo-Darwinism, Paleocene, paleoentomology, paleontology, phylogeny, polyphyly, stem group, stratigraphy, systematics, technical papers, Tree of Life}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

179}

We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, biologists, cladistics, entomologists, entomology, Gerhard Mickoleit, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, polymath, Protestantism, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, Willi Hennig}

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arthropods, brain size, chimpanzees, entomology, hunting, intelligent design, IQ testing, jumping spiders, lemurs, neuroscience, octopuses, spiders, The Scientist}

Spiders Are Smart; Be Glad They Are Small

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 15, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Recent research has shed light on the intriguing strategies that spiders use to deceive other spiders — and prey in general. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, bacteria, bacterial cell division, bed of nails, biofilm, butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, Drexel University, entomology, insects, intelligent design, Nature Communications, PNAS, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sea skater, stem cells, U.C. San Diego, University of Bristol, University of Illinois, water strider}

Intricate, Optimized Designs in Insects Beg a Question

_{Science and Culture
June 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

The ingenious inventions found in insects summon us to ask: How did these small organisms get them? Read More ›

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post

Date
February 18, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, aphids, binoculars, birds, Brown University, Current Biology, entomology, Flight, flight control, hummingbirds, insects, intelligent design, London, moths, Nature (journal), ornithology, UCLA, Wright brothers}

Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

9}

Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›

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post

Author
Mike Keas

Date
December 19, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, astrobiology, biosignatures, Buddhism, Cambrian Explosion, Christianity, Darwin-skeptics, dinosaurs, entomology, extraterrestrial life, Hinduism, insects, intelligent design, Judaism, Mars, NASA, New Testament, pareidolia, religion, Space.com, St. Louis, Unbelievable}

Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?

_{Mike Keas
December 19, 2019

Physical Sciences

8}

I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, architecture, bioluminescence, Biomimetics, carcinology, click beetle, crustaceans, Darwin Devolves, entomology, France, froghopper, Harrison Tasoff, hinge, humidity, insects, John Dabiri, krill, leafhopper, medicine, mucus, National Science Foundation, ostracods, Paris, planthopper, PNAS, robots, Stanford University, temperature, termite mound, termites, UC Santa Barbara}

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

7}

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›