Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

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

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how ...