biological evolution

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Alignment that functions as a tax on performance will be optimized away, in the same way that biological evolution eliminates traits that cost more than they contribute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

This study marks the first time that plate tectonic reconstructions from deep geological time have been quantitatively linked to both long-term carbon cycling and key milestones in biological evolution.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

“The country’s scientific community is seriously dismayed to see that the theory of biological evolution … has been dropped,” the Breakthrough Science Society said in a statement.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2023

Shaped across hundreds of thousands of years by biological evolution, our modern human brain struggles to comprehend things outside our familiar naturalistic context.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022

On the one hand, many individually unlikely steps had to occur in biological evolution and human history for our present intelligence and technology to develop.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan