Bats first appeared in Europe about 65 million years ago, after the mass extinction event that doomed the dinosaurs, before spreading around the world, the largest bat genome study found.

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.

A study of 112 pet, shelter, and free-ranging dogs found that all three groups looked more toward people simulating crying than humming.

Why do human brains vary in size and shape, and how did our brains expand over evolutionary time to give us our enhanced ...

Neuroscientists have long regarded this an oversimplification of the brain structure we’ve inherited from ...

we will be travelling back to the ancient world of the bronze age to meet the inhabitants of the key areas of the world in which it took place - Asia, Africa and Europe. We will meet the peoples who ...

The human brain is often described as one of biology’s greatest mysteries. Researchers at Stanford have found evidence that the developing brain begins from two distinct developmental origins, with ...

Biological evolution is recorded in the genomeThe history of life deciphered from DNAAn organism's genome contains not only the information needed to build its current body, but also the remnants of ...

Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

Fauci's diary reveals a self-obsessed career bureaucrat who refused to consider the possibility that his research contributed ...