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

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

A new study challenges the familiar idea that the brain evolved by stacking rational systems on top of primitive emotional ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead to ...

A study investigated whether the genes for schizophrenia and autism appeared more frequently as mammals evolved bigger brains ...

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

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

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

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 ...