In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...