Known as the Juluren, meaning 'big head people', this ancient species may have lived in China between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago. Scientists believe they would have had a larger brain than any ...
It takes a huge amount of energy for human brains to grow to their current large size and be maintained over time. Our early ...
The study analysed chimpanzee pelvic bones and found that females had human-like pelvic characteristics despite having easier births due to small brains, which surprised the scientists.
A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...
With the results all pointing in the same direction, and potentially having a strong impact on the "big brain—long childhood" hypothesis, the scientists had to think outside the box to ...
During an EEG test, technicians normally use rulers and pencils to mark up a person's head before gluing electrodes across ...