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How the Body Meets Its Need for Oxygen

Finely tuned and exquisitely engineered, this system gave our ancestors enough oxygen not only to stay alive but to thrive in the face of a hostile environment. Read More ›
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Dr. Howard Glicksman Describes Intricate Control Systems Sustaining Your Life Right Now

Cardio-pulmonary arrest offers a window on the human body's intelligent design. Read More ›
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J. Scott Turner
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In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life. Read More ›
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Glicksman
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Glicksman: Raising the Bar for Darwinism

“How can you understand where life came from if you don’t understand how it actually works?” Read More ›
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Photo: Final match, CONCACAF, 2016, by Los ruidos del deporte (Final CONCACAF) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Soccer and Human Exceptionalism

About a billion people watched the final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. That’s around 1/7th of the world’s population. Read More ›
Victor Borge
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Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch

Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times. Read More ›
Victorious athelete
Human Biology
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The “Exquisite Design” of Human Biology

There is a certain characteristic shallowness to the storytelling exercise that is evolutionary biology. Read More ›
Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails
Ford Model T
Photo source: William Creswell, Ford Model T Tourabout, c. 1910, via Flickr.

The Designed Body, Continued: Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails

Suppose I want to build a car that’s capable of getting me from point A to point B. It minimally takes several dozen parts. Read More ›
Professional man swimmer inside swimming pool. Underwater panoramic image.
Professional man swimmer inside swimming pool. Underwater panoramic image.
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The Designed Body: Irreducible Complexity on Steroids = Exquisite Engineering

Perhaps because life is so common, it’s easy to lose sight of how tenuous it is. Life depends on a delicate balance of forces. Read More ›

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