Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers reveal how gut microbes shape metabolic strategies to fuel larger brains, offering a glimpse into the evolutionary biology of primates. Putative model for microbial influences on the ...

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains - with humans bucking this trend - a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution has revealed. Researchers at the University of ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study ...

Humans owe our impressive intellect to our large brains, which are unusually sophisticated thanks to evolution. The first surge in our brain size occurred between 2 million and 800,000 years ago, when ...

Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species. Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

Recent fossil and skull studies reveal a surprising trend: Despite a fourfold increase in brain size starting around 2 million years ago, which coincided with major advancements in tool use, social ...