What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

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.

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Spirituality may have evolved during the Paleolithic from a brain circuit that was originally involved in the control of fear ...