Recent scientific efforts have advanced the development of a comprehensive primate evolutionary timetree, filling significant ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir ...

A new study suggests that gut microbes played a key role in the evolution of larger brains in primates by influencing energy ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of ...

Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...

Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body, and as a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy to support brain growth and maintenance. Exactly which biological changes ...

Gut microbiota from primates with larger brains promotes glucose production and energy allocation for brain function, ...

Researchers show gut microbes may have fueled brain evolution by optimizing energy use. Experiments revealed that microbes in ...

Other primates do it too. We – humans and other primates such as monkeys and apes – have something called social knowledge that allows us to keep track of the social dynamics of our friends ...

particularly the evolution of our large brains. The findings will be published in the journal Microbial Genomics on Dec. 2 at 10 p.m. CST. Prior studies have compared the influence of genes and the ...