When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

Assessing the relative roles of chance and necessity in evolution is of wide interest, but it requires evolving the same population under the same environment multiple times—a virtually impossible ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...