A molecular atlas of an Australian dragon's brain sheds new light on over 300 million years of brain evolution. Neuroscientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt tackled this ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

The axolotl, also known as Ambystoma mexicanum, is an aquatic salamander renowned for its ability to regenerate its spinal cord, heart, and limbs. These amphibians also readily make new neurons ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

A part of the brain called the pallium is responsible for many complex functions. In mammals, the pallium is thought to be where the neocortex forms, and gives rise to the cerebral cortex and ...

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 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, ...

Eighty-six billion interconnected neurons comprise the human brain, the product of billions of years of evolution. However, the mechanisms supporting the evolution of this remarkable structure over ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

A molecular atlas of an Australian dragon’s brain sheds new light on over 300 million years of brain evolution “Neurons are the most diverse cell types in the body. Their evolutionary diversification ...