A SCIENTIST has revealed why human penises are so big in comparison with our closest living relatives. Research has shown the ...

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, ...

The discovery of a new species of ancient big-headed humans in Asia, dubbed Juluren or is revolutionizing our understanding ...

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their findings underscore the critical role of gene expression in the evolution and advanced functionality of the human brain. Each ...

The rapid evolution of AI technologies has led to an expansion of AI policies and regulatory activities, presenting both opportunities and challenges. The federal government’s approach to AI ...

Evolution is about more than merely changing genes. “Differential gene expression is really how human brains evolved,” Yi said. Reference: Joshy D, Santpere G, Yi SV. Accelerated cell-type-specific ...

The findings show that while humans and chimpanzees share many of the same genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human brain. Researchers have long known that ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis Joshy et al. 2024. Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain. PNAS 121 (52): ...

Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2411918121 ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

And it turns out, that timeline of reversing the effects of all those pints could be a little longer than you thought. It might take your brain longer to recover from last night than you thought.