Anatomy and physiology

A HERC2 gene mutation strongly inhibits the OCA2 gene’s role in producing melanin in the human iris, resulting in blue eyes.

Lifespan decay, genetic entropy, age of fathers, Methuselah

Did Eve transition from a single bone to a 206-bone human? What about the transition from molecules to man?

Genetics catches up with the Bible, which says God fashioned Eve from one of Adam’s ribs.

Articular and quadrate of reptile jaw bones are neither morphologically nor genetically related to mammalian middle ear bones

Despite nearly 50 years of engineering efforts to build bipedal robots, human walking remains the ‘gold standard’.

Adam and Eve blood types, haploid clone, O is a mutation of A, which is more common than B

Bilirubin, an ‘animal only’ pigment, has been found in the bird-of-paradise flower and seeds

Refuting claims of bad design in Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches by Nathan Lents.

Feathered dinosaurs, bird evolution, avian lung, Archaeopteryx, Caudipteryx, Sinosauropteryx, Feduccia, Storrs Olson, Larry Martin, Theagarten Lingham-Soliar

How do our lungs work?

Raymond Damadian MRI pioneer

Why neuroscience brain experiments by Benjamin Libet and John-Dylan Haynes do not undermine free will.

Evolution does not explain the origin of human language or consciousness, a serious problem for naturalism and atheism.

Erez Ribak’s research shows that our ‘backwardly-wired’ retina is an ideal structure to optimize colour vision, thanks to the fibre optic plate of Müller glial cells.

Tall molars and grasslands; something to chew on.