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Scientists put human gut bacteria into mice and found their brains showed primate-like activity
The human brain is a greedy organ. It gulps energy, demands constant upkeep, and somehow grew far larger (relative to body ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...
A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words ...
A gene called ADSL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished. When you purchase through ...
John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...
Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...
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