Humans owe our impressive intellect to our large brains, which are unusually sophisticated thanks to evolution. The first surge in our brain size occurred ... was 1,291 cc, smaller than the ...

But our modern-shaped human brains may have only come into existence about 40,000 years ago, researchers say. The rounder, bigger brain shape that researchers have tracked lines up with when ...

The study, a collaboration between the universities of Reading, Oxford, and Durham, challenges earlier theories that posited sharp changes in brain size between species, emphasizing instead a ...

Aa Aa Aa Reconstructing the evolution of human ... size demonstrated by Martin (1983, 1990), they predicted brain size at birth for australopiths, early Homo, and Homo erectus (180, 225, and 270 ...

(CNN) — Cognitively normal human brain samples collected ... “Based on our observations, we think the brain is pulling in the very smallest nanostructures, like 100 to 200 nanometers in length. These ...