What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...
A baby giraffe walks within an hour of birth, while human newborns can barely lift their heads. Neuroscience suggests that ...
Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...
Over his six-decade career, UChicago professor championed honest scholarship, diverse perspectives and his students ...
Why must AI surpass humanity?Whenever the evolution of AI is discussed, there is a term that almost always appears.That is ...
The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...
Where on earth did we humans come from?Why do humans walk on two legs, speak languages, build civilizations, and even try to ...
Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like ...
Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...
Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.
Two decades ago, the book of the breathless hour was The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, ...
Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be ...