Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...

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 ...