Early efforts to describe brain evolution, such as Herrick's 1926 Brains in Rats and Men, were fun to read, but they were based on a very limited data set. Since then, there has been an explosion ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

Researchers led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Center for ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new ...

A new AI algorithm inspired by the genome’s ability to compress vast information offers insights into brain function and ...

The evolution of human brains may have been deeply influenced by social bonds and prolonged childhoods, rather than brain ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

JERUSALEM, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have developed a genetic method to restore the DNA control systems of ancient human brains, despite the lack of preserved brain tissue over millions ...

Learn more about Navaornis hestiae, the bird that could be a missing link to understanding how birds evolved from their ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Researchers led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen suggest ...

Interoception research reveals how gut-brain communication via neural, hormonal, and microbial pathways regulates metabolism, ...