Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

Early efforts to describe brain evolution, such as Herrick's 1926 ... organization from comparative studies on a broad range of vertebrate species. Systematic approaches have been developed ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex ...

Retroviruses were required for vertebrate evolution to take off. If we didn’t have retroviruses sticking their sequences into ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

With a phylogenetic analysis in the current study, the researchers show that the relationship between neuron number and brain size changed in a major way only four times in the evolution of land ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...