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

This use and restructuring of previous systems for new purposes is very much like the pattern of biological evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan