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What if Humans Were Twice as Intelligent?


How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain ...

How did human intelligence evolve? Anthropologists have studied this question for decades by looking at tools found in archaeological digs, ...

Unequal by nature: a geneticist's perspective on human differences

If not DNA, what are the causes of the differences we perceive between individuals and between groups of human beings? DNA is a very long molecule, composed ...

Top 30 Smartest Animals in the World | HowStuffWorks

There are several reasons humans are highly intelligent, including our problem-solving skills and large prefrontal cortex. A 2022 study ...

Why smart people are better off with fewer friends - Washington Post

"The effect of population density on life satisfaction was therefore more than twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ ...

If humans never evolved, would Earth still have intelligent life? This ...

The paths available to evolving organisms are far from limitless.

Are We the Only Intelligent Life in the Galaxy? - Scientific American

Optimism about the possibilities of intelligent extraterrestrial life ignores what we know about how humans came to exist. ... And if our planet ...

Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings - PMC

For example, if the heritability of intelligence with random mating were 0.40, the additive genetic variance of intelligence would increase ...

Why do people around the world share fake news? New research ...

In the study, people who got all three questions wrong on a critical thinking quiz were twice as likely to believe false claims compared to ...

Increased intelligence is a myth (so far) - Frontiers

... if individual change scores are used in a pre-post design. SAT scores, for ... Human Intelligence. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press. Jaeggi ...

Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world

Whether or not they're equal to or superior to humans is irrelevant since animals are inferior to us in intelligence to different degrees. At ...

Machine Bias - ProPublica

If computers could accurately predict which defendants were likely to commit new crimes, the criminal justice system could be fairer and more ...

5 phrases smart people use to succeed at work - CNBC

Here are five phrases the most successful people use every day to help them get noticed and get ahead.

Stephen Hawking's final warning for humanity: AI is coming for us

Hawking says this will create an “intelligence explosion” in which machines could exceed our intelligence “by more than ours exceeds that of ...

Fluoride at twice the recommended limit linked to lower IQ in kids

The report said that about 0.6% of the U.S. population — about 1.9 million people — are on water systems with naturally occurring fluoride ...

10 Things That Would Happen if Everyone Were a Literal Genius

So while the world would be far from perfect, because people aren't perfect, even if they are really, really smart, a planet full of geniuses ...

What's The Deal With Smart People And Friends? - Bustle

But researchers suggest it's possible that highly intelligent individuals are better able to adapt to modern life, and that they therefore are ...

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds - James Clear

Humans need a reasonably accurate view of the world in order to survive. If your model of reality is wildly different from the actual world, then you struggle ...

Will humans be around in a billion years? Or a trillion? | Aeon Essays

They should bloom wherever there are planetary cradles like Earth. And if intelligent civilisations are destined to expand out into the ...

Is intelligence more of a genetic or environmental trait?

If a person with a high IQ marries someone with a lower IQ, their kids could have most any IQ. The same is true for two high IQ parents ( ...

D'oh! Why human beings aren't as intelligent as we think

INTELLIGENCE has enabled humans to reach for the moon, cure disease and generally dominate this small blue dot of a planet.


Frankenstein

Novel by Mary Shelley https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOMyKdErEFh7EkrIgOQqvoF-oqjrfs13H61kZ7uN2wp1krQQOb

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novel by Oscar Wilde https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQd9exHr6EA_4-xh_U9xl3M5kNqzEf-pymZVd_vsHID4K7tACuQ

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Novella by Robert Louis Stevenson https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSf-K3CFQjWvPgN9KfvF15jb4YvTXrxheixmj4iOFyNP7ZXsxTX

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by British author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

The War of the Worlds

Novel by H. G. Wells https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUAwbr7lNnPjPTe103tg3OjhPgKcMBBugF4gcdgBSFNse68-bR

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897.

The Jungle Book

Book by Rudyard Kipling https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWu-peXXncMScJmcE-dTW0m85QjeG8lTNIwVi1sZh858UuIGSj

The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.

A Princess of Mars

Novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQfhXBb9e9uTnaQNYGP14eXOxroLq0NaAhptIG8Fx7sIV21FnUV

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912.