Ostensibly the purpose would be to help with rare forms of infertility in women. But these are dual-edged technologies. Source Read More Evolution News
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Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence
The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory. Source Read More Evolution News
Convergence? One-Celled Creature Has an Eye!
“Convergent evolution” is not a process. It is a post-hoc observation based on evolutionary assumptions. Source Read More Evolution News
When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West
Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Source Read More Evolution News
Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution
Despite Miller’s claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Source Read More Evolution News
Postcard from Florida: When Tortoises Joust
This fellow was peacefully grazing by himself, unlike his pugilistic cousins nearby. Source Read More Evolution News
Summer Seminars on ID Are FREE but Application Deadline Is Near
The program is highly subsidized and intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and humanities. Source Read More Evolution News
Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI
“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?” Source Read More Evolution News
Jonathan Bartlett on the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations
Often a given biological system dramatically limits the search space of possible mutations in useful ways. Source Read More Evolution News
Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage
Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Source Read More Evolution News