Varbuss Type post Author Eric Cassell Date March 14, 2025 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectome, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, feeding, information, intelligent design, interneurons, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, mating, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuropeptide, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, sensory neurons, serotonin, synapses “Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple Eric Cassell March 14, 2025 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 9 Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›
lossy-page1-2235px-Megaphragma_mymaripenne-SEM.tif Type post Author Eric Cassell Date January 14, 2025 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & MindZoology 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 ›
Front_views_of_the_Venus_de_Milo Type post Date June 15, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Biomimetics, capillaries, carbon, cartilage, detoxification, drug delivery, engineers, erythrocytes, hair, human body, intelligent design, Internet of things, materials science, Michelangelo’s David, MIT, nitrogen, physiologists, red blood cells, Science Advances, synapses, University of Colorado The Human Body as a Biomimetic Inspiration Science and Culture June 15, 2020 Intelligent Design 9 As symbols of the perfection of human form, one might consider the Venus de Milo or Michelangelo’s David. But those don’t show the insides. Read More ›
Euglypha-tuberculata Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date January 29, 2018 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, amoeba, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolutionary theory, evolutionary tree, molecular data, natural selection, nerve cells, neurotransmitter, synapses, tautology Early Complexity: An Evolutionary Case Study Cornelius Hunter January 29, 2018 Evolution 5 Amoebas contain hundreds of times more DNA than humans, and this “just didn’t make sense.” Read More ›
