The brain's complexity stems from evolutionary layering—new functions built atop ancient foundations, resulting in a tangled ...

Sound gets in your head and stays there. When the brain processes sound, it actually resonates with it, like a tuning fork that's been struck. You can hear the brain's resonance if you have the ...

The neocortex is the largest and youngest part of the mammalian brain. Human beings’ higher cognitive abilities have long been attributed to the evolution of the neocortex ... breaking science news ...

Join us as we explore the evolution of the human brain, diving into our 'caveman' instincts and the fascinating psychology that links us to our ancient ancestors. 'Big beautiful bill' could be ...

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

Subscribe to Technology Networks’ daily newsletter, delivering breaking science news straight to your inbox every ... examined data on the brain structure of 56 mammalian species, including humans, to ...

"Our ancestors' cranial capacity began increasing 2.5 million years ago, which conservatively gives us about a 1-million-year gap in the timeline between brain size increasing and the possible ...

In this week's Hitting the Books excerpt, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI ... more is happening in your brain than merely the automatic prediction of words. We have, of course ...