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Letting robots evolve without human oversight eliminates many of the preconceived ideas and biases that humans bring to the table by default. "We start from randomness, which is the way life started for us. Most of the random ones are pretty bad ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51976987/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/...
In new work, researchers have simulated evolution using virtual robots and watched them develop ... As a result, these machines cannot adapt to unfamiliar surroundings. Unlike human engineers, however, nature is a master at creating creatures that can ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51964405/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/how-evolu...
Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the earliest evidence of ancient human ancestors hunting and scavenging meat. "Just about that time — 2 million years ago — we see big shifts in the human fossil record of increase in brain size, increase in ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51878293/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/earliest-...
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Only rarely have people seen what happens when chimpanzees and leopards come into close quarters in the wilds of Africa. On these occasions, chimpanzees have made loud, fearful calls, or played the aggressor: In one case, chimps even surrounded ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/25/18493499-spotted-first-evidence-of-l...
A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet? "I can say I have an ulterior motive," said David ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/19/18305415-why-sign-up-for-a-one-way...
Ardi lived in woodlands and climbed on all fours in the trees, but was also capable walking on two feet — suggesting that this hallmark of human evolution occurred in the forest, not grasslands as previously believed. The discovery team, headed by Tim ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38158710/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/eight-gre...
Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon. While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18453370-private-spaceflight-study-a...
The failure is indicative of the overall aging of the nation's weather satellite network ... providing a steady stream of image data for the eastern U.S. and Atlantic Ocean. The second satellite is GOES-West, which focuses on the western U.S ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18450624-satellites-failure-on-eve-o...
A glowing cockroach, a monkey with a blue behind and a meat-eating sponge snagged spots on a list of top 10 new species named in 2012, scientists announced Thursday. In its sixth year, the Top 10 New Species list is compiled by the International ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18447605-check-out-that-glow-in-the-...
The good news is that they've spotted 95 percent of the 980 or so mountain-size NEAs — rocks at least 0.6 miles (1 km) wide, which could end human civilization if they hit us — thought to be cruising through our planet's neighborhood.http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18449556-europe-opens-new-asteroid-h...
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Updated May. 22, 2013
More about human evolution: How sex with Neanderthals made us stronger; Where did we get the energy for big brains? Brawn may have boosted the human brain;http://science.nbcnews.com/evolution
Updated May. 20, 2013
Scientists are fond of running the evolutionary clock backward, using DNA analysis and the fossil record to figure out when our ancestors stood erect and split off ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7103668/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-evol...
Updated October. 27, 2005
Human evolution at the crossroads . Where are humans headed? Experts sketch out scenarios for the evolutionary rise or fall of our species. By MSNBC's Alan Boyle.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7093738/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Updated May. 23, 2013
Scientists find that the landscape in Africa's cradle of humanity fluctuated rapidly roughly 2 million years ago, likely guiding early human evolution.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50297765/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/how-clima...
Updated May. 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — The latest fossil unearthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12286206/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/fossil-di...
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For decades the consensus view — among the public as well as the world’s preeminent biologists—has been that human evolution is over. Since modern Homo sapiens ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29123062/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-evo...
Updated May. 21, 2013
Cities have apparently influenced human evolution, some scientists now find. The findings all begin with how cities help spread disease by bringing people closer ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39345149/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/does-city...
Updated May. 22, 2013
This image shows the skeletal right hand of the adult female Australopithecus sediba nestled within a modern human hand. The fossil hand, lacks three wrist bones and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44438221/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/pre-human...
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At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated rapidly, likely guiding ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50296388/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/erratic-e...
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Dogs, cats, cows and other domesticated animals played a key role in human evolution, according to a theory being published by paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38639193/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/pets-vita...
