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 ...

NOVA has been following the evolution of artificial intelligence since it was a zygote. In our 1978 film The Mind Machines, Arthur C. Clarke predicted, “I think that what we’re doing now is in a sense ...

If you're at ASHG, a session you might want to attend, Scale Effects and Recent Brain Evolution: Theory and Preliminary Evidence. Here's the abstract: What forces have driven human evolution since the ...

It's one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get ...

Multiple AIs study each other's internals and inherit the discovered knowledge into the pre-training of next-generation ...

The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of jellyfish to the navigation abilities of bees, the complex songs of birds and the imaginative ...

When certain species of wild birds and primates discover new ways of finding food in the wild, it can serve to measure their flexibility and intelligence. In the largest experimental study ever ...

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

There is continuing controversy about inter-ethnic differences in IQ and why these might exist. One of the most heated areas of debate is what role if any is played by genetic differences between ...