Gotta hand it to Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, he’s a brave one. He is taking on the Woke claim that sex isn’t really binary in animals.
Biology
Vox offers three “unexplainable” mysteries of life on Earth
Science writer Carl Zimmer offers “The problem is, for each definition of life, scientists can think of a confounding exception.”
Design patterns in the human body
Engineer Steve Laufmann discusses the design patterns in the human body. Laufmann is co-author of the book Your Designed Body.
Tufts biologist asks, where is anatomy coded in living systems?
Michael Levin: The idea is that there is supposed to be emergence (of anatomy), and that kind of emergent complexity, but this idea that things are working towards a goal, as any navigational system fundamentally does, is not something that is very comfortable, certainly for molecular biology.
At Phys.org: Learning to better understand the language of algae
Communication implies the purposeful interchange of information. How does intentionality arise from natural interactions between atoms?
At Evolution News: Secrets that Give Sea Lions and Jellyfish Their Edge as Swimmers
“If the world’s best human designers are attempting to build machines to mimic what these animals “naturally do,” it’s a reasonable inference that sea lions and jellyfish originated from an intelligent cause — one with superior knowledge of propulsion, fluid mechanics, and optimization.”
The Intelligent Design Audiopaper Project
I was thinking recently, about how many audiobooks are consumed by people these days. I would guess that the main reason behind this consumption is convenience. Many people just don’t have the time, or don’t create the time, to really sit down and get their head in a book. But I understand that for many, Read More…
Ancestral genetic variation essential for rapid evolution of Darwin’s finches
“An important question in evolutionary biology is how such rapid evolution can take place?”
Sabine Hossenfelder tackles trans women in women’s sports
And ends by saying that childhood genetic engineering will probably bring an end to high achiever sports altogether.
Michael Egnor muses on some shaky arguments for abortion
Egnor: “if the fetus is a part of the mother’s body, then all pregnant women are chromosomal mosaics. That is, they are organisms that have two sets of genomes. Chromosome mosaicism is a rare disorder and is not synonymous with pregnancy.”
Strong emergence principle emerges in biology
Paper: The phenomenological approach advocated here allows to identify hidden rules according to which strongly emergent traits may be organized.
A search for the most complex thing in the universe?
At IAI.TV: “This synthesis of biology and cosmology required a shift away from reductionism and the belief that all systems can be understood by breaking them down into their constituent elements. Instead, the new way of thinking makes sense of complex systems and their evolution by considering the number of possible future states those systems could take.”
Researchers: Animals age at the same rate despite big variations in lifespan and size
At ScienceDaily: Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found that despite huge variation in lifespan and size, different animal species end their natural life with similar numbers of genetic changes.
A tale of two publications on the “xenobots”
What’s interesting is that the supposed “science” publication is largely hype and the supposed “non-science” publication is realistic. Sometimes it feels like camping on a volcano.
Chemist: Biology points to intelligent design
Rummo: Dr. Patrick, always up for a good challenge, wrote on the board (in Spanish) “This sentence wrote itself.” The group of doctors and medical students debated the nonsense of such a statement for several minutes until finally Dr. Patrick erased the phrase This sentence and replaced it with DNA, adding “But you all believe this statement, don’t you?”