Scientists have proposed a new AI method in which systems of habitual and goal-directed behaviors learn to help each other. Through computer simulations that mimicked the exploration of a maze, the ...

The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ...

A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ago. A new study suggests ...

Prefixing the word “adaptive” before “child” is relatively new in therapy literature. And contrary to the word’s usual positive connotations, in this context, it’s much more ambiguous. Undeniably, all ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed the viral genomes of 28 endemic viruses to study the evolution of the ability of viruses to evade the neutralizing ...