Scientists find clue to human brain evolution in finger length: Study ...

New research suggests that hormones before birth may have played a role in the development of the human brain.

Scientists uncover how finger-length ratios in newborns reveal hormonal influences that may have shaped human brain evolution.

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Researchers have found a link between prenatal oestrogen exposure and larger head size in newborn boys, using the ratio of ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that the gut microbiome does more than aid digestion. It may also influence how ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Evidence for the controlled use of fire is rather sketchy prior to one million years ago. Well before this time, human ancestors such as Homo erectus, whose brain size fits between ourselves and the ...