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

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 ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits how these new technologies might affect human evolution. In "How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?" ...

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

This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our advanced cognitive ... Primates, and especially humans, have exceptionally large brains for their body size.

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people ... “He was very important in paleoanthropology, in bringing the study of brain evolution from being a marginal enterprise to ...