Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have shaped our ...

The evolutionary answer to how human brains got to be so big had as much to do with the hips as it did the head, research released on Thursday shows. Evolution in brain size linked to larger ...

The discovery adds to the growing understanding of how genetic changes arising during evolution made us human and significantly advances knowledge about what genes HARs controlled, said James ...

Elevated hormone levels in the womb, combined with enhanced placental function, may have played a key role in human evolution ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Cambridge researchers say pregnancy hormones played key role in human brain size, cognition, and social behaviour.