Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...
J. Arvid Ågren, PhD, assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Manus M. Patten, teaching professor at Georgetown University’s Department of Biology, recently co-edited ...
Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 65, No. 6 (June 2020), pp. 1286-1296 (11 pages) The meroplanktonic larvae of many invertebrate and vertebrate species rely on physical transport to move them across ...
In this dense volume, biologists Ågren (The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution) and Patten gather perspectives from scientists and philosophers on the conflicts that occur within organisms. Though generally ...