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Photo: Stingray, a cartilaginous fish, by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it.  Read More ›
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Photo: Cuban crocodile, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

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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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 ›
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Photo: High resolution CT scans of fossilized teeth and jaw bones of Purgatorius mckeeveri material from UCMP, Gregory Wilson Mantilla / Stephen Chester, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. 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 ›
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Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›

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