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A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, has frequently voiced his thoughts on the ...

What is to become of us? Or rather, what is to become of those of us in modern civilization? This is an essential question, ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...