Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

In the course of evolution, vertebrate brains can change in response to adaptation to a new habitat or altered living conditions. Until now, our understanding of brain evolution in vertebrates has ...

A recent series of studies suggests that the brains of birds, reptiles and mammals all evolved independently — even though ...

Learn about the technological inventions that shaped the evolution of human brain, giving it unparalleled ... to the brains of more than one hundred vertebrate species, in collaboration with ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous ...

Jarvis is well known in the field for his speculation about the evolution of vocal learning ... for vocal learning is basic to the vertebrate brain—specifically, that it is related to the ...

The A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB), a pioneering biomedical research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), marked its 40th anniversary ...

"This suggests that during evolution, PNS microglia played a critical role in neuronal development and maturation in large-bodied vertebrates ... synthetic biology and brain science facilities ...

In a study published in Cell on April 7, a research team led by Prof. LI Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the ...

"We ask how new brain regions and cell types form in evolution, how they connect to the rest of the brain, and what this tells us about the organizing principles and function of the vertebrate brain.