The Universe's average colouris called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study,astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colourthat’s close to white. Animals can experience time differently from humans. To smaller animals, the world around themmoves more slowlycompared...
The researchers say they aren’t able to predict, from their analyses, how many of the parasites in their dataset could potentially avert extinction by jumping ship and adapting to new hosts that are more abundant. But some of the most notorious diseases in humans, such...
How did humans evolve? Humans emerged in Africa about 6 million years ago, evolving from a common ancestor of humans and apes. Over the course of the past several million years, there have been about 15–20 different early human species, and last April, scientists announced the discovery of ...
, that my contemporaries scoff at evidence of atomic warfare in ancient times, that thousands of archaeologists are looking for skeletons through which humans seem to have descended from apes, while not one scientist is following up on an old article with evidence that apes descended from humans....
What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to what distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines. A computer works with symbols. Its program specifies a set of rul...
As story-telling apes, the change is a narrative, and if you don’t provide a narrative for me to at least pick at, I’ll invent one my goddam self, so the communication piece here is massive.HOW you communicate the waves of change that you do pass on is critical.By video? In per...
In this respect, some researchers say we possess a "pretty optimal design for an intelligent being," Shostak said. It could be that there is no other choice but for intelligent beings to look like humans. [What If Humans Were Twice as Intelligent?] ...
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation. ...
“Tool use” was once considered one of the primary factors that madeHomo sapiensdistinct from all other animals, but Jane Goodall’s studies of Chimpanzees at Gombe and subsequent research among living apes has shown that the tool use of humans is differentiation of grade and complexity more th...
In our own evolutionary line, we can see an increasing diversification of the great apes, the human-chimpanzee tribe split, and the progression of the homo genus that eventually led to humans. And that’s the kind of thing you’d see in other parts of the life story on a scale of 10...