FeaturedGeneticsOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·September 7, 2018·3 min readThe Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders and Personality TraitsResearchers have identified a gene that has evolved through natural selection and is implicated in psychiatric disorders and personality traits. The study suggests natural selection has helped shaped our psychiatric traits and helped to maintain human diversity.Read More
FeaturedGenetics·February 20, 2018·3 min readNew Algorithm Can Pinpoint Mutations Favored by Natural Selection in Large Sections of the Human GenomeA new machine learning algorithm is able to accurately pinpoint mutations in the human genome favored by natural selection.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 16, 2017·5 min readDon’t Count on Your Chickens CountingResearchers contradict the accepted view that we biologically evolved a capacity for numerical cognition.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 10, 2017·4 min readIn Brain Evolution, Size Matters – Most of the TimeStudy reveals we may have first evolved larger brains that allows for adaptions which enhanced brain regions controlling specific abilities.Read More
