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

What events led to differences between humans and other primates? What changes throughout evolution underlie such a dramatic shift in how we socialize and process information? Although somewhat ...

Longer thumbs mean bigger brains and this is “pivotal” to human evolution, research has found. Scientists studied 94 fossils and living animals to understand how our ancestors developed their gripping ...

Matthew Robert Borths receives funding from the United States National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Carolina Loch and Ian Towle do not work for, consult, own ...

It suggests that manual dexterity and brain evolution are connected across the entire primate lineage, from lemurs to humans. Notably, the correlation held even when human data were excluded, ...

Microbes supporting the production of more metabolic energy could be key to the evolution of large brains First study to show gut microbes from different animal species shape variations in their ...