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Or, at least, our form of life outcompeted all others out there. We don’t actually know that life only started the one time.

it's a juvenile, which has a brown head!

you're not wrong. unfortunately it's about the only thing that will pass an ethics board, outside of patients who are already having neurosurgery and consent to more invasive proce…

I'd argue that it's not intelligence alone that lets us land a machine on the moon — it's our cooperation, written language, learned culture, communication. An individual person ca…

Yes! It evolved at least 25 times (that we know of). Animals, plants, algae, fungi, etc. all invented multicellularity independently and in many of those groups did so multiple tim…

excellent longread on the development of AlphaFold - with interviews with Baker + Jumper and more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein...