A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a key gene ...

During a conversation with Nick Matzke he asserted that Creationists weren't less intelligent necessarily. I contended that they were less intelligent. I based on this on snooping through the GSS when ...

When I look at the human brain, I feel something akin to 'strata'.If you dig deep into the earth's ground, layers created in different eras appear.There are layers of accumulated sand. Layers of ...

Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – with hopes high that the resource could enhance scientific understanding of ...

What if natural intelligence has reached the end of its evolution, while artificial intelligence has only reached the beginning of its evolution? Recently, I traveled to the Arctic with a group of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine an unresolved question about the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the crucial debate about whether ...

Smartness. Understanding. Brainpower. Ability to reason. Sharpness. Wisdom. These are terms typically used to indicate human intelligence. The broad range of connotations they encompass is indicative ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

The following article was written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther, a visiting scholar at Wharton and director of global alliance POZE. A humanitarian practitioner who spent over 20 years at the United ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...