Posts by: Galen Perry

Bio-Inspired is the Future

December 5, 2012 at 3:22 am

When was the last time you thanked your inner ear? Probably not after riding a roller coaster or getting carsick, but what we sometimes curse and so often take for granted is nonexistent in insects such as flies. Flies lack the fluid in their head that helps us determine up from down, and yet, they still manage to […]

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Partridge in a Pear Tree: But How did it Get There?

November 24, 2012 at 1:04 am

  How is a half wing useful? This problem has divided the scientific community on the evolution of flight since the time of Darwin because it questions the evolutionary benefit of limbs that are incapable of flight. Bird ancestors clearly did not grow fully functional wings overnight and it is still unclear exactly how wings […]

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