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A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that the gut microbiome does more than aid digestion. It may also influence how ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract–the gut microbiome can exert a profound influence on the human body, and scientists are learning more about exactly how certain microbes can impact us.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests the gut microbiome can reshape brain function and energy use, offering new insight into human brain evolution ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest of the body cast in supporting roles. A wave of new microbiome research is ...