While monkeys are undoubtedly clever, they aren’t as intelligent as humans. This discrepancy is likely because people’s evolution has resulted in larger and more complex brains than monkeys.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Creative Commons 3.0. In a controlled lab experiment, researchers implanted microbes from two large-brain primate species (human and squirrel monkey), and one small-brain primate species (macaque ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount ...

Our brain is remarkably flexible in producing different reactions to supposedly comparable situations. The same sensory information can lead to different decisions depending on the behavioral context.