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• Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior

  The brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, similar to the neural machinery for learning language, according to Harvard evolutionary biologis Marc Hauser. Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:47 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Human evolution, Primates, Morality

• Darwin's God

  In the world of evolutionary biology, the question is not whether God exists but why we believe in him. Is belief a helpful adaptation or an evolutionary accident?... Read more
  Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:44 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Evolution, Human evolution, Religion

• Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution

  A surprisingly recent instance of human evolution has been detected among the peoples of East Africa. It is the ability to digest lactose, the principal sugar of milk, in adulthood, conferred by genetic changes that occurred as recently as 3,000 year... Read more
  Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 6:41 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Human evolution, Lactose digestion, Milk

• Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?

  Neanderthals may have given modern humans a gene that helped develop superior brains by interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, according to researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago. The team found ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 5 Comments

  Tags: Human evolution, Brain evolution, Brain, Neanderthals

• The Untold History of Humanity As Seen Through Evolutionary Eyes

  Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard has produced a documentary movie that "spans the history of the evolutionary journey of our species from the big bang to current times, and beyond, to our emergence as a universal species, utilizing our spiritual, social... Read more
  Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:23 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cosmology, Human evolution

• Human species 'may split in two'

  Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time, as predicted by H.G. Wells, says evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics. He expects a genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, int... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:17 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Technology forecasting, Human evolution

• DNA trail points to human brain evolution

  The human brain may have evolved beyond that of our primate cousins because our brain cells are better at sticking in place, researchers say. The genetic assembly of the ten billion neurons in the human brain relies on precise expression of adhesi... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:10 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Human evolution, Brain evolution

• Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human

  A newly discovered mystery gene may have helped build the modern human brain. Scientists don't know what the gene does. But they do know that humans have more copies of it than chimpanzees, monkeys, rats and mice. And they know that the DUF1220 ge... Read more
  Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 10:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 3 Comments

  Tags: Human evolution, Human genetics, Brain genetics

• Fastest-evolving human gene linked to brain boost

  The fastest evolving gene in the human genome is one linked to brain development, which has undergone "accelerated evolutionary change" in just five million years, as we evolved from our shared simian ancestor. ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:48 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Human genome, Human evolution