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What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

HEC Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. HEC Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings ...