The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

A sweeping new analysis of more than 4,000 brain scans reveals that our brains’ neural networks don’t simply mature and then decline; they reorganize through a series of distinct life-stage “epochs,” ...

Around one in three people worldwide have been infected with a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii – or simply ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising principle behind the brain's intricate development from a single cell. Researchers propose that cells, much like spreading human populations, tend to stay near ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...