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Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›
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Non-Evolution of the Wet Dog Shake

Common things can become extraordinary when examined by science. In this research, evolutionists need not apply. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Andre Mouton via Unsplash.

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›
Glires
Photo: Palaeolagus haydeni, James St. John, Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›
Asian black bear
Photo: Asian black bear, by Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, the Asian black bear and the South American spectacled bear, and more. Read More ›
gorilla
Photo: Unamused gorilla, by Matt Mechtley from Heidelberg, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Doctor’s Diary: There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution

Is a sense of humor a byproduct, an accident, or was it installed on purpose? For better health? There definitely seems to be a purpose. Read More ›
black garden ants
Photo: Black garden ants, by Katja Schulz from Washington, DC, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Animal Algorithms: Ant Foraging Is a “Rational” Behavior

Of course, ants and other animals do not make decisions in a “conscious” manner as humans would. Instead they rely on algorithms. Read More ›
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Photo: A bowerbird, by Holgi via Pixabay.

Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes

The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size. Read More ›
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Photo: Lab rats, by Jason Snyder from Washington, DC, United States [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Read More ›
Thomas Henry Huxley
Image: Thomas Henry Huxley, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›

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