Yesterday’s post was about the shift in the tech world away from efforts to develop a narrowly-focused AI for specific purposes to the attempt to develop a “superhuman” AI that can outdo human beings.

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow. Published in ...

Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...