For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

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 ...

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. ―Darwin Compared with other mammals, human beings have large brains and access to types of intelligence that other animals ...

Every morning at 74th Street Elementary School in South Los Angeles, a small figure walks briskly through the front gate. Her name is Linda Ricks; she’s a retired office manager and lifelong community ...