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Scientists have unearthed the remains of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, potentially one of our earliest ancestors. A new analysis suggests this ancient creature may have walked on two feet, pushing back ...

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Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

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A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A figure from the research paper shows that both the model and experimental animals learned a task at a very similar pace. A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and ...

lol. this is like looking at the difference between a chimp brain and a human brain and saying "it's just a somewhat larger number of neurons." you are confusing linear growth with critical mass. we ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...