Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution
Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Source Read More Evolution News
As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist
The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer’s remarkable screed. Source Read More Evolution News
Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution
Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Source Read More Evolution News
Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace
Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Source Read More…
Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Source Read More Evolution News
Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System
This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Source Read More Evolution News
Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?
Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Source Read More Evolution News
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”
When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Source Read More Evolution News
A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism
This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously. Source Read More Evolution News