The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

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

(Credit: NASA) What are the odds of humanity emerging, well, anywhere? Conventional wisdom says that our emergence, evolution, and development on Earth were extremely improbable. But a new model says ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.