Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

Instead, our study suggests brain evolution happened in steps ... Primates, and especially humans, have exceptionally large brains for their body size. Between primates, brains differ in size and in ...

The results indicate that having a wider pelvis reduces the risk of complications during birth, but results in slower walking and a higher risk of pelvic floor-related conditions and osteoarthritis of ...

It’s the newest part of the brain in terms of evolution, and differentiates the ... a portion of the mouse’s visual cortex roughly the size of a grain of salt while it watched a series of ...

The award will fund Beston's dissertation project, titled "The evolution of complexity: tests of the ecological drivers of eye size and brain size evolution in nature", which examines the evolution of ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face ... The early woman’s small brain size notably disproved prior theories that a larger brain was essential for the dexterity required ...

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in ...

Learn how the deeply intelligent killer whale learns to communicate by listening.

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways ... and that it might have been optimized by evolution to do just that. Consistent with this, in the past decade, MIT ...