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I’m an evolutionary expert. Here’s who would really win in a fight between 100 men and a gorilla - ANALYSIS: A gorilla can ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

The final section of the study delves into individuation - the process by which AI systems are presented as discrete, ...

Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge, England, author of Life’s Solution, believes that evolution inevitably converges on certain traits, including intelligence. The octopus, which can manipulate ...

The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, given ...

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

David Wood never set out to study evolutionary science — let alone reinterpret one of the world’s most iconic military texts.