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

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens ... could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries: a puzzle that started with the ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species. They trained deep learning models on human, ...

Scientists from the University of Reading, the University of Oxford and Durham University found that brain ... between species. The team assembled the largest-ever dataset of ancient human fossils ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

in the largest such study of its kind covering 136 species. Timelapse of Ph.D. student Aubrey Keirnan mounting a serially sectioned bird brain onto slides so that they can be measured and analyzed ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...