He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

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While the name means "southern ape," the australopithecines ... it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin—Homo erectus—becomes ...

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Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

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 ...