A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

"Who are you?" This question, in its many variations, is almost inevitable in school applications, job interviews or introspective moments. We spend years, perhaps our entire lives, unraveling the ...