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Bookmark or Share- Nervous System Functions and Parts - Ask A BiologistParts of the Nervous SystemThe center of the nervous system is the brain. The brain takes in what your eyes see and ears hear, and if you decide that you want to move around, your brain tells your muscles to do it.
- Can humans be split into races? | Ask A BiologistThis helps show that human appearances are more varied than our genes. Individual traits (like skin color) or combinations of traits (like skin color and hair color) cannot reliably group people by race. Using images that show the wide variation in human appearance can help address this common misconception.
- Bone Lab | Ask A BiologistTake a tour of the bones inside the human body with the virtual Skeleton Viewer. In the Explore mode you can select a viewing window and locate the bones of interest. Take a snapshot and then use the inspect icon to click on each bone to see its name and information.
- Insect and Human Similarities | Ask A BiologistSome organs are very different between humans and insects, like the heart. On the left is a human 4-chambered heart (just after a heart transplant) and on the right is the enlarged image of a long thin tube heart in a beetle. Human heart image by Vasily I. Kaleda; beetle heart by the Harrison lab. The human liver removes toxins from the body.
- Human Animal Differences | Ask A BiologistSo maybe there isn’t that much that makes us uniquely human. Maybe we need to pay more attention to what animals are doing, and try to view the world through their eyes. And, perhaps our ability to consider animal's feelings and hope for the well-being of these other amazing creatures is our best, and most uniquely human ability.
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