Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

Humans owe our impressive intellect to our large brains, which are unusually sophisticated thanks to evolution. The first surge in our brain size occurred ... years ago, human brains became ...

overturns long-standing ideas about human brain evolution. Scientists from the University of Reading, the University of Oxford and Durham University found that brain size increased gradually ...

The discovery adds to the growing understanding of how genetic changes arising during evolution ... human brain, including cell types that may have contributed to the increased size of our brain ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

in years ago): 7.6—6 million BRAIN SIZE (est., in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller ...

The human brain is more than seven times the expected size. Although evolution has enlarged the human brain, it hasn’t done so uniformly: some brain areas have ballooned more than others.

The human brain stands ... evidence-based strategies for brain health, we can navigate each stage with greater awareness and appreciation for the remarkable evolution of human cognition.

E (New York, NY: Springer, 2009) 101-120. DeSilva, J. M. & Lesnik, J. J. Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: a new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins. Journal of ...