New research suggests that monkeys, like humans, may be engaged in the process of self-adaptation, altering their own evolutionary and physiological pathways through the way they interact with each other. It has long been recognized that animal rearing promotes certain physical features that are not found in their wild counterparts. …
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Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us understand the written word. In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have shown …
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Researchers have discovered a neural overlap between humans and machines that helps explain why what we see in our mind’s eye is different from the information our real eyes process when we observe something in reality. With the help of an fMRI scanner and artificial neural network, an AI engine …
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