A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

The human brain is a greedy organ. It gulps energy, demands constant upkeep, and somehow grew far larger (relative to body ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...