For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Could our gut hold the key to human intelligence? New research shows gut microbes can shape brain development, boost energy ...

Five hundred million years ago, a larva this small swam in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, its tiny form supporting a ...

The longer the thumb, the bigger the brain, evolution study suggests By Pranjal Malewar September 07, 2025 The research found the bigger a primate's brain the longer its thumbs were, affirming a ...

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...

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 ...

It’s been known for millennia that the human body accumulates waste as a result of day-to-day functioning, but it’s now recognized that the awake, active brain also builds up waste that negatively ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...