Tag: mollusks

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, flatworm, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, mussels, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Adrian Dyer, Air Force, beetles, bugs, butterflies, caterpillars, cockroaches, CUNY, Current Biology, ecosystems, flies, Metamorphosis, mollusks, Monash University, moths, Nature Communications, pollinators, proteins, snails, Space Force, spiders, University of Adelaide, wasps}

Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures

_{David Coppedge
September 13, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Zoology

7}

Between cells and humans, there are millions of "ugly duckling" species that are beautiful in their own way. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Canada, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, crustaceans, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Mark Twain, mollusks, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, protists, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

_{Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

11}

In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", antifreeze, cattle, Charles Darwin, crustaceans, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, fish, Herbert Spencer, horses, intelligent design, James Tour, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jonathan Wells, mollusks, natural selection, organisms, oxygen, oxymoron, pine tree, puppies, purpose, science of purpose, selection, sheep, speciation, Stephen Meyer, variations, water}

A New Look at Natural Selection

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 18, 2023

Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›

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Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chromosomes, cuttlefish, emotion, genomes, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, memory, mollusks, Nautilus, octopuses, pain, scientists, squid}

Can Largely Rearranged Genomes Explain Why Octopuses Are So Smart?

_{Science and Culture
May 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Even compared to each other, the genomes of three cephalopods studied had been broken up and extensively reorganized. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Animal Algorithms, birds, breeding, convergent evolution, Current Biology, Design Inference, elephant seal, Eric Cassell, evolution, intelligent design, lobsters, map sense, migration, mollusks, sea turtles, synchrony, UC Santa Cruz}

The Elephant Seal in the Room

_{David Coppedge
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

You’ve heard about salmon, whales, and sea turtles. Now learn what the clumsy-looking elephant seal accomplishes navigation-wise. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia}

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
November 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circulatory system, Cnidaria, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Kimberichnus, mollusks, movement, oxygenation, Paleobiology Database, Parvancorina, Precambrian, radula, scratch marks, Silurian Period, Solza}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

_{Günter Bechly
September 19, 2020

Evolution

13}

One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran "fossil problematica.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cows, Dickinsonia, Germany, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus teruzzii, microbial mats, Middle Triassic, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, mouthparts, Odontogriphus, protozoans, radula, scratch marks, trace fossils, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

_{Günter Bechly
September 17, 2020

Evolution

4}

There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More ›