Sentences with phrase «evolution of this intelligence»

If our results are confirmed in future studies, it would be a unique demonstration of convergent evolution of intelligence, involving the same neurotransmitter receptors despite the widely different brain structures of birds and mammals.»

That would be the evolution of intelligence!

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) as a model system for study of the evolution of intelligence.

Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute is a nonprofit, multi-disciplinary research and education organization whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe and the evolution of intelligence.

This means that insects didn't face the same selective pressure for super smart parents that mammals do, so they didn't get to tap into the positive feedback loop that may have driven the evolution of intelligence in humans.

(And for those who want to delve into the neuroscience, there's an interesting piece on the convergent evolution of intelligence in crows and apes, who, it seems, use different brain structures to reason.)

Not exact matches

Susan Gordon, principal deputy director in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, speak with CNBC's Eamon Javers about the evolution of cyber threats, the Las Vegas mass shooting, and the Russian meddling in the U. S. election.

At Vision Critical, addressing this challenge has been a key driver to the evolution of our customer intelligence platform.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

British chemist Leslie Orgel once said, «Evolution is smarter than you are,» to which atheist Christopher Hitchens responded, «But this complement to the «intelligence» of natural selection is not by any means a concession to the stupid notion of «intelligent design.

Just because evolution led to intelligence in our case, we shouldn't assume that intelligence is an inevitable consequence of Darwinian natural selection.

The authors discuss the evolution of the human brain, the importance of language, and compare human intelligence to that found in other animals.

I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

Just intelligence, common sense and an inherited compassion and willingness to cooperate that comes naturally from the evolution of our species.

Indeed the past history of human intelligence is full of «mutations» of this kind, more or less abrupt, indicating, in addition to the shift of human ideas, an evolution of the «space» in which the ideas took shape — which is clearly very much more suggestive and profound.

Without intelligence, it would have remained in the form of instinct...» (Creative Evolution, 178).

This effectiveness has been achieved chiefly through the growth of intelligence, and is most clearly manifest in the decisive change that has taken place in the method of evolution, which in man proceeds through reflective deliberation rather than through the unconscious processes of natural selection that prevailed in the pre-human era.

My idea of a higher intelligence in something that sparked the fuse of evolution (yes we did evolve from pre-historic man and esstentially apes get over yourselves creationists) and nothing more.

Nothing has evolved ever if evolution was real we wouldn't be losing our intelligence we would be getting smarter and smarter but instead we are getting sicker and sicker the next time you look up towards the sky ask yourself one question how can an accident create all of this if God didn't exist you would never have to question his existence but because he exists there is that question.

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

God did not create us in seven literal days but, through a process of material evolution, a species emerged with the intelligence and capabilities required to break free from its environment.

Bill Nye believe in EVOLUTION instead of Creationism.To me it's 50/50 how the life began.But the only thing I have against EVOLUTION is how can nothing make something.What intelligence created nothing to create something?

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

It is certainly the case that any view of evolution which recognises the emergence of intelligence as a sort of destiny, written in the script of nature, is welcome.

Material evolution led to a natural threshold, where any further increase of animal intelligence would have been biologically useless.

I have provided you with a proven human accomplishment that is fact and science has provided a model / theory of evolution that excludes this as being a possibility (an intelligence that purposely creates).

We have proven the possibility of what many here claim to be myth - that is an intelligence purposely creating / designing a new life form that did NOT occur from natural evolution.

At first glance, intelligent design looks like the same argument that evolution's foes have made since 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species: Only a divine intelligence could have created something as complex as life on Earth.

The path I've outlined roughly recapitulates the evolution of human intelligence — but 10 million times more rapidly.

Scientists devised the social intelligence hypothesis to explain the evolution of the human brain.

For him, «the debate over evolution, design, creation, supernatural intelligence, etc., is not a scientific question in the first place but the collision of worldviews, the confrontation of materialism and idealism,» he says.

Shaw says the results suggest that general intelligence «has evolved independently in the avian lineage» and that parallel evolution of general intelligence among animals «could be more widespread than we currently realize.»

She uses the orca for a case study in the evolution of morals; to explore emotional intelligence, her main example is the crocodile.

«If we're going to understand the evolution of the brain and of intelligence, we have to look across the gamut of species,» says Anna Wilkinson of the University of Lincoln in the U.K..

The traits of human - like intelligence have evolved in other species — the octopus and some birds, for example, both exhibit social playfulness — and this, the book suggests, indicates that intelligence is an inevitable consequence of evolution that would characterise extraterrestrials as well.

And in the sweep of evolution, I doubt that we're the last word in intelligence.

Once a year, a group of computer scientists and technology mavens gather at the Loebner Prize Competition to test the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence.

«You have to really put your head in the sand now to dispute the matter,» says Alison Jolly, author of Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution and former president of the International Primatological Society.

Explanations in the first category are based on unique aspects of human life history, such as intelligence, social organization, and cultural transfer that allowed the evolution of longevity [45]--[51].

These findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, are a major step forward in understanding the evolution of human intelligence.

Learning that lipids played an essential role in the evolution of human intelligence, he says, is «the tip of a very big iceberg.»

The findings will «open the door to further investigations into the biological basis of intelligence, exploring how the brain, genes, nutrition and the environment together interact to shape the development and continued evolution of the remarkable intellectual abilities that make us human,» Barbey said.

... if development of intelligence is partially driven by cooling episodes, as suggested by Schwartzman & Middendorf (2000), then on BD planets cognitive evolution may be expected to contain a stronger continuous component than on Earth.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

During times of calorie surplus this miracle of evolution has the innate intelligence to store energy in the form of body fat.

It received critical acclaim, with THR's review stating: «It's hard to imagine anyone with a heart and a brain not responding to the quiet delights and stunning intimacy of Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's account of the personal evolution of a 58 - year - old divorcee, played with scrupulous honesty and intelligence by the wonderful Paulina Garcia.»

Shin Gojira (Shin Godzilla, Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi, 2016) A film of immense beauty and fierce intelligence about creation, evolution, destruction, logistics and problem solving.

The «evolution» of body movements is an obvious advantage in the human species, says Gardner; this evolution follows a clear developmental schedule in children, is universal across cultures and thus satisfies the requirements of being considered an intelligence, he says.

We are also making investments in AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning, which will enable the evolution of our platform to continue.

Evolution is another key element of Heart of the Swarm which requires not only for Kerrigan to «evolve» but also the Zerg into this new species with almost human - like intelligence.