Since "2001: A Space Odyssey," people have wondered: could machines like HAL 9000 eventually exist that can process information with human-like intelligence? Researchers at Michigan State University ...

EVER since the original enunciation by Baldwin 1 in 1896 of the theory of ‘organic selection’, the suggestion that local differences of habit (local ‘traditions’ as Elton 2 has termed them) may be the ...

Textbooks—teachers’ road maps through the curriculum—generally do a respectable job of covering evolution, according to experts who have reviewed the books, though the thick volumes tend to be weaker ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...

If you're like me, you might feel that the word "reskilling" has been tossed around so much that it has lost all meaning. As the pandemic created chaos in the job market, many workers found themselves ...

There’s an important shift happening in the world of large language models (LLMs)—one that could redefine how we interact with artificial intelligence. And the answer, previewed today by OpenAi, might ...

Creationists are right—in some cases. They are not right that the world is only 6,000 years old, nor that our species descended from two innocent ancestors in an Iraqi garden. They are not right when ...

When Charles Darwin articulated his theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species in 1859, he focused on adaptations — the changes that enable organisms to survive in new or ...

[Vienna, June 2022] During the past 10,000 years – the Holocene – human societies became larger and ever more complex. An international team of scientists led by Peter Turchin from the Complexity ...