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This shows a closeup image of bat sensory neurons. Highlighted are the areas where the neural activity is present.

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·April 30, 2015·4 min read

Bats in Flight: How Information About Airflow is Sent to the Brain

Studying bats, researchers discover how the sense of touch plays a key role in powered flight.

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·April 27, 2015·3 min read

Mustached Bats Use Both Sides of Brain to Process Sounds

A new study reports mustached bats use both sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

This shows how a gorilla and human grip an object.

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·April 20, 2015·3 min read

Getting to Grips With Grasping Ability

New research suggests Australopithecus afarensis could have had precision grip capabilities comparable to modern humans.

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·April 15, 2015·5 min read

Complex Cognition Shaped the Stone Age Hand Axe

According to a new study, higher executive function was required to create a Lower Paleolithic hand axe.

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·March 19, 2015·3 min read

Male Attraction to Certain Body Types Has Evolutionary Roots

According to a new study, a man's attraction to curvy women is rooted in evolution.

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·March 8, 2015·3 min read

Mice Don’t Need the Cortex to Sing Their Songs

Researchers explore the foundations of vocal learning.

This image shows the location of the cerebral cortex in the human brain.

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·March 5, 2015·3 min read

Researchers Map ‘Switches’ That Shaped the Evolution of the Human Brain

A new study provides detailed information about human specific changes in gene regulation and human brain development.

This image shows a brain slice of an embryonic mouse cerebral cortex. The caption best describes the image.

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·February 27, 2015·3 min read

A Gene for Brain Size

Researchers discover a specific gene only found in humans, Neanderthals and Denisova-Humans which trigger brain stem cells to form a bigger pool of stem cells.

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·December 1, 2014·3 min read

Brain Folding

New findings could pave the way for future research into brain evolution.

This image shows a young girl pulling an angry face.

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·August 29, 2014·4 min read

Researchers Identify Origin and Purpose of the Facial Expression for Anger

A new study reports on the functional advantages which caused the specific appearance of the human's angry face to evolve.

This image shows a pigeon taking part in the test.

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·August 27, 2014·3 min read

Gamblers Are Greedy Bird-Brains

When making risky decisions, people show the same tendencies as pigeons, a new study reports.

This image is of the Taung child fossil's skull.

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·August 25, 2014·2 min read

Taung Child’s Skull and Brain Not Human-Like in Expansion

A recent neuroimaging study casts doubt on theories that Austalopithecus africanus' infant brain development was similar to that of modern human infants.