Digital art has made a profound impact on the global art scene and with the rise of NFTs a new era of creativity has dawned ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The study sheds light on the evolutionary adaptations that allow snow leopards to thrive in one of the world's most ...

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Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

The research found that Lucy could run upright but at significantly slower speeds than modern humans, supporting the theory that human evolution focused on enhancing running performance, particularly ...

The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern humans originated in Africa and then migrated to other parts of the world. However, that “out of Africa” model is being challenged by a ...

When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet ...

In light of this, new theoretical and empirical perspectives are needed to understand the role and interplay of ancestry, environment, population history, and natural selection in the evolution of ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...