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DARPA’s New "MAGICS" program seeks bold new methods to predict human behavior and decode complex, evolving social systems.

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Discover how the brain solves complex problems using simple strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning.

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From depressed polar bears to charismatic pandas, conservationists have used anthropomorphism, or the practice of attributing ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...