10 Reasons We Should Fear the Singularity

Well, let me give you what I believe are the top 10 most popular reasons:

‘Missing Link’ Gene Discovered

It is a question that has long puzzled scientists. What made our ancestors break away from apes and advance so dramatically?

Now researchers believe they may have explained the missing link – a duplicated gene.

Researchers believe that a copy of gene SRGAP2, which appeared in ‘ape men’ around 2.5million years ago, helped our brain cells move faster and make more connections – enabling the brain to become more complex.

 

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Power as Addictive as Cocaine

More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely‘ scientists claim the saying is biologically true.