The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing how to cook.

For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

Artificial intelligence has painted a startling picture of human evolution, suggesting that by the year 3025, our species could bear little resemblance to its current form. Prolonged digital immersion ...

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our survival to superior intellect and our hyper-competitive spirit, a new study ...

Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

NEW YORK (February 10, 2026)—Evolve: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Technologies to Enable Superhuman Capabilities by Sharon Daniels is now available on Amazon and at major ...

As a child, I was captivated by the promise of personal computers, mesmerized by the glow of light, full of potential ideas radiating from the screen. That fascination ignited a lifelong passion for ...

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could dramatically change the human species. Describe what you mean by that. Scharf: ...