Tag: termites

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post

Date
February 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, intelligence, pheromones, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, wasps}

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

_{Science and Culture
February 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, annelids, antennae, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Period, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, crustaceans, earthworms, eyes, fishing, food, GUT, legs, Michael Denton, mud dragons, muscles, NASA, nerves, Penn State, Privileged Species, roundworms, scalidophorans, soil, termites, underground, University of Birmingham, worms}

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, ants, brain, Cataglyphis fortis, code, cognitive ability, colony insects, Current Biology, Eric Cassell, Germany, honeybees, information, information flow, intelligent design, life, navigation, nest, neurons, rock ants, termites, tree ants}

Ants Build Landmarks for Navigation

_{David Coppedge
July 18, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

The difficulty of finding your way back home from a long distance is partly solved in a tiny ant’s brain. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algae, atmosphere, bacteria, biosphere, carbon, cells, cellular metabolism, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Greenland, heme, hydrogen, intelligent design, Michael Denton, neurons, nitrogen, nitrogenase, Norfolk, nucleic acids, oxygen, phosphorus, PLOS ONE, Privileged Species, rare earth elements, supply chain, termites, The Miracle of Man, University of Pennsylvania, vitamin B12}

How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life

_{David Coppedge
February 27, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

8}

It’s no help having essential elements in the Earth’s crust if they can’t get to the organisms that need them. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, aardvarks, Africa, ants, Darwinists, Egypt, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Kenya, living fossils, mammals, Miocene, paleontology, placental mammals, Pleistocene, termites, Tubulidentata, Uganda}

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

10}

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 26, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Canada, consciousness, Eugene Wigner, goats, Jamaica, John Bell, John von Neumann, Nigeria, quantum effects, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, termites}

Quantum Physics Axed Materialism. Many Hope the World Won’t Know

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

3}

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder struggles to explain how quantum mechanics is consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates}

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

_{David Coppedge
August 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

8}

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 6, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, birds, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Eric Cassell, evolution, honey bees, insects, intelligent design, navigation, On the Origin of Species, termite mounds, termites, turtles, webinar}

Animal Algorithms — Webinar on Thursday with Eric Cassell, Casey Luskin

_{Science and Culture
December 6, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Charles Darwin conceded that such instincts are “so wonderful” that their origin would strike many as “a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behavior, animal kingdom, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Jonathan Swift, monarch butterfly, On the Origin of Species, spider silk, spiders, termites, wasps}

Genius in Lilliput

_{Eric Cassell
November 9, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Complex programmed behaviors are evident throughout the animal kingdom, but in these pages the focus will primarily be on less advanced animals. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, crop circles, DNA, dragline silk, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, fairy circles, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, milkweed, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, proteasomes, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

8}

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›