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 ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

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

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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 ...