A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A new study has examined how mothers influence the size of their child's head—and, as a result, brain size and future ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish may have evolved large brains because of the challenges posed by their environments rather ...

How did humans get such big brains – the answer might lie in the gut. A recent study from Northwestern University in the US is the first to show that gut microbes from different animals can shape ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.