Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may copy that smile without effort or awareness. Similar copying happens with ...

Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

CHANG: That is Yoko, a cockatoo that recently participated in a research survey looking at the phenomenon of vocal mimicry in parrots - what we often refer to when we say that parrots are, quote, ...

RJ Mackenzie is a freelance science writer with a neuroscience degree. RJ Mackenzie is a freelance science writer with a neuroscience degree. View full profile RJ Mackenzie is a freelance science ...

Researchers have shown that inedible species of butterfly that mimic each others' color patterns have also evolved similar flight behaviors to warn predators and avoid being eaten. Researchers have ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The apparent mimicry found in cutting-edge AI technologies like GPT-4 or Large Language Models (LLMs) is nothing short of astounding. It’s this "marvel of mimicry" that got me thinking about the human ...