Tag: EVOLUTION

As Mia Wallace sagely told us, everyone's either an Elvis person or a Beatles person. According to one neurologist, though, all of mankind shares some lowest-common denominator of musical taste, and we have evolution to thank for it. Dale Purves, Ph.D., a professor of neurobiology at Duke, has just written a journal article with Kamraan Gill, Ph.D., in which they explore the evolutionary ...

If you grew up with a few brothers and sisters, you know there are certain unspoken rules when it comes to food. You have to move fast without being noticed to get the last fish stick. According to a new study, it's not just humans who can learn these survival rules; robots can, too. Technology Review reports that a team of scientists at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de ...

Remember the tale of Kevin Colvin? He was an intern who called in sick, only to be caught lying to his boss thanks to pictures of himself attending a party posted on his Facebook page. Colvin was famously called out by his boss, and then fired, leaving many shaking their heads and wondering how someone could do something so stupid. The answer, according to columnist Helen A. S. Popkin at least, is ...

New research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) shows that the Internet and technology is already changing the development of the human mind. Gary Small, the director of the Memory & Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and the Center on Aging at UCLA (phew...), has found that activities such as text messaging and Internet ...