For decades, organizations have approached data architecture with a monolithic mindset—centralized platforms, complex codebases and rigid structures. While these systems were built with the noble goal ...

Ironically, one great unsolved problem in Darwin's master work, On the Origin of Species, was just that: How and why do species originate? Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

One of the big trends in artificial intelligence in the past year has been the employment of various tricks during inference -- the act of making predictions -- to dramatically improve the accuracy of ...

Evolutionary approach to animal behavior -- Diversity of behavior -- Genetics of behavior -- Development of behavior -- Nerve cells and behavior -- Organization of behavior -- Evolution of behavior: ...

Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...