The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) USA and quantum adoption firm FormationQ have announced a first-of-its-kind, two-year research partnership to apply quantum computing to behavioral ecology. Launching on World Chimpanzee Day, the program will explore how environmental and ecological variables influence whether primate societies evolve toward cooperation or intergroup conflict. Mapping the Evolutionary Divide via Agent-Based Modeling The program, Ecology of War and Peace, leverages more than six decades of field observations gathered by Dr. Jane Goodall in Gombe, Tanzania, to solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. Despite sharing close genetic lineages, chimpanzees frequently engage in organized, lethal intergroup aggression, whereas bonobos peacefully [...]

Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ Launch First-of-its-kind Quantum Computing Research Programme to Explore the Ecological Roots of War and Peace

The Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ have launched a two-year research partnership using IonQ's trapped-ion quantum computer.