The “missing link” helps adults grow new neurons—something long thought to end after childhood—and that discovery could lead ...

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 ...

For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago from a single line of forebears. But today, one research ...

This research disputes established beliefs that some species, like Neanderthals, were immutable and incapable of adapting, demonstrating the gradual evolution of human brain size.

An international team of neuroscientists and anthropologists has found that the parts of the brain that grew the most during human evolution are the parts that are now the most susceptible to aging.