Leveraging the power of large language models, evolutionary biologists have successfully simulated 500 million years of evolution. Called the EvolutionaryScale Model 3, or ESM3, this multimodal ...

There is little or no evidence that the two human cousins fought with each other. However, one provocative hypothesis is that Neandertals, when they were alone in Europe and Asia, cannibalized each ...

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A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration camps and was the oldest person to carry the Olympic Torch in last year's Paris Games relay has died aged 102, the French Rowing ...

This study underscores that the evolution of human intelligence likely involved coordinated changes across all brain cell types, not just neurons. Our brain is arguably the organ that most ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis Joshy et al. 2024. Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain. PNAS 121 (52): ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

With stories of our living ape relatives using medicine and information about the evolution of adolescence and emergence of genetic and neurological diversity, 2024 research delved into the human ...