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?

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

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

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

Most of the genomic changes that occurred during human evolution did not occur directly ... levels of the TBX1 gene and that ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack ... could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human eye, with its many parts and astounding abilities. Through natural selection ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...