"A virus created the human brain." I was initially wary, as this sounded like the kind of headline that would circulate for ...

Lund researchers linked ancient viral DNA to a silenced chimpanzee gene, while human organoid tests revealed a role in ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

Young chimpanzees enjoy some fruit. (Martin Harvey/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably ...

Millions of years after an infection, viral DNA still influences how developing chimpanzee brain cells behave.

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like ...

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers ...

The human brain accounts for roughly 2% of total body weight but uses approximately 20% of our body's energy. Relative to our ...

When you're listening to a familiar language, you hear individual words, but what if the language is unfamiliar? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that ...

The research raises ethical concerns, however, but also offers potential breakthroughs in understanding and treating neurological disorders Scientists at Stanford University put human brain tissue in ...