Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study, published today (Tuesday, 26 November) in the journal PNAS, overturns long-standing ideas about human brain evolution. Scientists from ...

An international team of neuroscientists and anthropologists has found that the parts of the brain that grew the most during ...

a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study, published today (Tuesday, 26 November) in the journal PNAS, overturns long-standing ideas about human brain evolution. Scientists from ...

Here is a typical timeline for chimp neurons — they ... a geneticist who studies human brain evolution at the University of California San Francisco. Some changes could just be side effects ...

E (New York, NY: Springer, 2009) 101-120. DeSilva, J. M. & Lesnik, J. J. Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: a new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins. Journal of ...

Reference: Joshy D, Santpere G, Yi SV. Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2024;121(52):e2411918121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2411918121 Never miss ...