The brain is a physical organ—that much is clear to everyone. But how do we understand the mind and consciousness—what is it and how did it evolve? Source: Thinkstock Do you think of yourself as ...

Scholars from across the country and abroad gathered in Boston University’s Photonics Center for an all-day conference Saturday titled “Convergent Minds: The Evolution of Cognitive Complexity,” where ...

The anal breakthrough is a key part of all animal evolution. This video starts at the beginning of the universe, and then ...

New research suggests that consciousness originates in the subcortex, and is polished by the cortex and cerebellum.

Human beings are the only living creatures who can manage their own evolution. We can decide to progress and grow or to devolve and ultimately destroy ourselves. This isn’t a Darwinian proposition.

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this has proven to be more of ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, famous for his book *The Selfish Gene*, reignited a longstanding debate in the AI ...