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·September 24, 2026·5 min read

Solving the Mystery of the Smooth Primate Brain

Researchers discover why marmoset brains remain smooth, revealing how progenitor cell timing alters primate cortical folding.

3D medical illustration of a human brain showing distinct color-coded anterior and posterior developmental regions converging within a single skull. Caption reads "The Human Brain Is Two Distinct Organs Packaged Together."

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·September 18, 2026·6 min read

The Brain Is Two Separate Organs Joined by Evolution

A new study reveals the human brain is composed of two independently evolved organs, enabling the first lab-grown human hindbrain neurons.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 7, 2026·9 min read

How Overconfidence and Loss Aversion Co-Evolved

A new study demonstrates that human overconfidence persists because its decision-making costs make it a credible, peacock-like evolutionary signal of underlying ability.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 6, 2026·11 min read

New Hypothesis Links Fertility to Lifespan in Women

A new study introduces the Reproductive Resilience Hypothesis, reframing female reproductive biology as an evolutionary driver of longevity and multi-organ healthspan.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·August 5, 2026·5 min read

Modern Human PSPH Gene Outperforms Variants

A new study shows modern human PSPH gene variants produce L-serine more efficiently than ancient hunter-gatherer versions, revealing how brain biochemistry evolved over time.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·July 24, 2026·10 min read

Study Reveals Ongoing Natural Selection in Modern Humans

By measuring allele frequency changes across adult age groups, the team identified 168 variants under active selection, including 71 pathogenic mutations under purifying selection.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 24, 2026·9 min read

New Study Flips Core Rule of Evolution

A long-term hyena study reveals female reproductive inequality exceeds male inequality over multiple generations.

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Featured Neuroscience

·July 20, 2026·10 min read

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

A new study reveals that non-human primates share a fundamental intuition for geometry with humans.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 19, 2026·25 min read

Is Working Memory the Subconscious Engine of Consciousness?

A new study evaluates the historical capacity debates and architectural frameworks linking working memory to conscious awareness, presenting an alternative "Spectrum Model" of human memory encoding.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 10, 2026·10 min read

Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness Found

A new study identifies the oldest known evidence of "handedness" in the animal kingdom within the 550-million-year-old Ediacaran fossil Spriggina floundersi.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·July 2, 2026·11 min read

How 21st-Century Screens Hijack Brain Circuitry

Modern psychosocial crises, including chronic stress, competition, and loneliness, are driven by an evolutionary mismatch between our primitive, small-group neural wiring and the high-density, screen-mediated parameters of contemporary life, calling for structural urban and digital design interventions rather than relying solely on individual coping mechanisms.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 25, 2026·10 min read

New Brain Map Reveals Deep Roots of Vertebrate Intelligence

A spatial single-cell brain atlas of the jawless lamprey reveals that the common ancestor of all vertebrates possessed a highly complex molecular brain architecture 450 million years ago, showcasing ancestral "moonlighting" neurons that eventually specialized following ancient whole-genome duplications.