- Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/dont-worry-smart-machines-will-take-us-with-them 8 comments technology
- Researchers From Princeton And Max Planck Developed A Reinforcement Learning–Based Simulation That Shows The Human Desire Always To Want More May Have Evolved As A Way To Speed Up Learning https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/08/06/researchers-from-princeton-and-max-planck-developed-a-reinforcement-learning-based-simulation-that-shows-the-human-desire-always-to-want-more-may-have-evolved-as-a-way-to-speed-up-learning/ 2 comments machinelearningnews
- The female orgasm originally evolved to trigger ovulation, and it's a "leftover" trait that no longer has the same purpose in humans. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-5-2019-is-red-meat-bad-deflecting-asteroids-politics-making-us-sick-and-more-1.5307212/hear-how-evolution-explains-the-female-orgasm-1.5307219 20 comments science
- Dogs' eyes evolve to appeal to humans https://www.bbc.com/news/education-48665618 3 comments worldnews
- If microevolution is evident given the way microbes evolve in response to antiobiotics+vaccines, wouldn't microevolution also be present in our own microbiome, serving as observable evidence of evolution in humans+other animals? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/a2ck7m/if_microevolution_is_evident_given_the_way/ 80 comments askscience
- If strength and muscle was evolutionarily advantageous for humans and their anscestors, how come we have to manually work out (tear) our muscles to have them grow back stronger. Why wouldn't human muscles just have evolved to automatically tear and repair themselves? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/75vddn/if_strength_and_muscle_was_evolutionarily/ 3 comments askscience
- Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving https://www.nature.com/news/massive-genetic-study-shows-how-humans-are-evolving-1.22565 3 comments science
- Can Humans Evolve on Mars? https://omni.media/can-humans-evolve-on-mars? 3 comments science
- Have any animals evolved to counteract Human impact on nature? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5j18d1/have_any_animals_evolved_to_counteract_human/ 33 comments askscience
- Turns Out Chimps Are Lovers not Fighters - New Research suggests chimpanzees prefer cooperation to conflict, and offers insight into how cooperation evolved in humans. http://www.voanews.com/a/chimpanzee-cooperation/3476444.html 9 comments worldnews
- Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have proposed. http://www.psypost.org/2016/08/large-human-brain-evolved-as-a-result-of-sizing-each-other-up-44354 1224 comments science
- Humans evolved to get better sleep in less time http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/du-het121415.php 5 comments science
- 98% of Scientists believe that humans have evolved over time; Compared to just 65% of U.S. adults (Pew Research/AAAS survey) http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/pi_2015-01-29_science-and-society-00-01/ 5 comments science
- Superior pattern processing is the essence of the evolved human brain (2014) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc4141622/ 9 comments cogsci
- Skin cancer risk may have driven evolution of black skin: Early humans may have evolved black skin to protect against a very high risk of dying from ultraviolet light (UV)-induced skin cancer, a new analysis concludes http://www.icr.ac.uk/press/press_archive/press_releases_2014/24586.shtml 4 comments science
- Human longevity has not significantly increased since the Paleolithic. Humans evolved early to live until at least the seventh decade. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/gurvenkaplan2007pdr.pdf 283 comments science
- Humans evolved on meat http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046414 106 comments science
- Humans are not immune to evolution: we are still evolving, even over short time scales. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/human-change-we-can-believe-in-by-denis-r-ale 814 comments science
- Is this how Eve spoke? Every human language evolved from 'single prehistoric African mother tongue' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1377150/every-language-evolved-single-prehistoric-mother-tongue-spoken-africa.html 5 comments culturalstudies
- Bill Maher's latest Christine O'Donnell clip: "You know what? Evolution is a myth. Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/24/odonnell-evolution-maher/ 1067 comments politics
- Dear Reddit, are humans the only primates with butt cheeks? Why did we evolve them? http://www.thenewwearsoff.com/ 10 comments reddit.com
- "Religions are natural phenomena. They have evolved over millennia. And human beings have been redesigning their religions." - Daniel Dennett, philosopher http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/94/? 3 comments reddit.com
- The Straight Dope: Are human beings still evolving? http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_047.html 8 comments science
- Brains grew faster as humans evolved study shows https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Research-News/Brains-grew-faster-as-humans-evolved-study-shows 3 comments science
- The Stone Age may have lasted 20,000 years longer in part of Africa than previously thought, recent archaeological finds revealed. This refutes a long-standing theory that humanity evolved in one unified way towards our modern lifestyles – and instead evolved at different speeds around the world. https://whatsnew2day.com/the-stone-age-may-have-lasted-up-to-20000-years-longer-in-some-areas-than-previously-thought/ 26 comments science
- The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness - "Morality exists only because we evolved the capacity to empathize. And empathy provides the best guide to moral action." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/opinion/empathy-research-morality-rats.html 134 comments philosophy
- People have evolved to sleep much less than any other known primate. If humans followed typical primate sleep patterns, we’d snooze about 9.5 hours a day on average, new research argues. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-primates-sleep-evolution?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science 49 comments science
- Human eyes have evolved to be able to see in a wide range of light intensity, have different parts of the world evolved slightly different from another according to their specific need? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7v32u5/human_eyes_have_evolved_to_be_able_to_see_in_a/ 2 comments askscience
- A game to study human behavior has shown punishment is an ineffective means for promoting cooperation among players. The result has implications for understanding how cooperation has evolved to have a formative role in human societies. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/15/1707505115.full.pdf 44 comments science
- IBM Watson has identified therapies for 323 cancer patients that went overlooked by a molecular tumor board. Researchers said next-generation genomic sequencing is "evolving too rapidly to rely solely on human curation" when it comes to targeting treatments. http://www.hcanews.com/news/how-watson-can-help-pinpoint-therapies-for-cancer-patients 442 comments science
- Plague bacteria evolved to become less toxic to fleas, which helped the bacteria spread worldwide and ultimately kill millions of humans. http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/12/22/how_the_plague_hijacked_fleas_108988.html 19 comments science
- Are Humans Inadvertently Helping Make Animals Smarter? | A new study shows that changes in the environment caused by people are helping animals to evolve bigger brains. http://www.alternet.org/environment/are-humans-inadvertently-helping-make-animals-smarter 2 comments science
- Fashion is not decadent, it’s intimately connected to human evolution. Evolving to be naked and unadorned with the plumage of other species, our skin is a canvas to be used for expression and attraction. Fashion isn’t a rebuke of what’s natural, it’s an answer. https://www.the-pamphlet.com/articles/why-fashion-is-more-relevant-than-you-think?rq=oliver 3 comments philosophy
- Scientists have created a ‘mother’ robot that can build babies out of mechanised blocks, and then create new ones that evolve from the previous generation. The findings show that robots could be able to evolve on their own, in the same way that animals and humans have. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/robot-mother-builds-babies-that-can-evolve-on-their-own-10453196.html 56 comments worldnews
- Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making. Research has discovered that in large groups of essentially anonymous members, people make choices based on a model of the "mind of the group" and an evolving simulation of how a choice will affect that theorized mind. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax8783 6 comments science
- Researchers have found that dogs have evolved muscles around their eyes, which allow them to make expressions that particularly appeal to humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/education-48665618 123 comments worldnews
- The dominant hypothesis for why we evolved such large brains suggests that challenging social interactions were the driving force. A new study finds evidence against this idea and shows that human brain expansion was likely driven by ecology. http://cerebellos.com/why-do-humans-have-such-large-brains-our-study-suggests-ecology-was-the-driving-force/ 13 comments science
- Intense Warfare the Evolutionary Driver of Large Complex Societies - The question of how human societies evolve from small groups to the huge, anonymous ones of today has been answered mathematically, accurately matching the historical record on the emergence of complex states in the ancient world. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/intense-warfare-evolutionary-driver-large-complex-societies 47 comments history
- Giving Makes Toddlers Happier than Getting, May Explain Why Humans Evolved Self-Sacrifice http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120619/10366/children-altruism-evolution-happiness-sacrifice.htm 22 comments science
- Will the future of space exploration evolve into a hybrid of human and robotic expeditions, one which may change the face of humanity in space? http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/11/is-the-human-species-entering-an-evolutionary-inflection-point.html#more 8 comments space