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·September 7, 2018·3 min read

The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders and Personality Traits

Researchers 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.

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·February 20, 2018·3 min read

New Algorithm Can Pinpoint Mutations Favored by Natural Selection in Large Sections of the Human Genome

A new machine learning algorithm is able to accurately pinpoint mutations in the human genome favored by natural selection.

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Featured Neuroscience

·May 16, 2017·5 min read

Don’t Count on Your Chickens Counting

Researchers contradict the accepted view that we biologically evolved a capacity for numerical cognition.

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Featured Neuroscience

·May 10, 2017·4 min read

In Brain Evolution, Size Matters – Most of the Time

Study reveals we may have first evolved larger brains that allows for adaptions which enhanced brain regions controlling specific abilities.