Stuart Russell, Dario Amodei, AI Slowdown, AI Risks: On Risk From Superintelligence, Top AI Expert’s Chimpanzee-Nukes Analogy
New Delhi: It is difficult to describe what loss of human control over Artificial Intelligence (AI) may look…
Study reveals evolutionary advantage of human heel-first walking style
The average person takes thousands of steps each day, instinctively walking heel-to-toe. Although they hardly register them, those…
Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million…
Uganda’s Great Chimpanzee Forests.
A CHIMPANZEE MAKES EYE CONTACT IN THE FOREST GREAT LAKES PABIDI LODGE BUDONGO FOREST The first chimpanzee appeared…
Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why
Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild…
New Research Traces Origins of Human Laughter
The way humans laugh — in rapid, rhythmically timed bursts — is not uniquely ours. New research by…
In zoos, ‘Peaceful’ Bonobos Are Just as Aggressive as Chimps
Aggressive behavior by bonobos. Image by Nicky Staes (CC BY-SA 4.0). A new study of our two closest living relatives finds that,…
Chimpanzee’s Drum Solo Offers Clues to Origins of Music
Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male chimpanzee named Ayumu say the animal’s steady…
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking
For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis — a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin…
Humans Evolved from African Ape-Like Ancestor, Research Suggests
In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large…
China zoo bans visitors from showing short videos to baby chimpanzee over eyesight concerns
A zoo in eastern China has become the focus of online chatter after banning visitors from showing a…