Early efforts to describe brain evolution, such as Herrick's 1926 Brains in Rats and Men, were fun to read, but they were based on a very limited data set. Since then, there has been an explosion ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain—and ... understanding the evolution of biological ...

The human brain is a marvel of evolution, a three-pound universe of ... Shaped like miniature brains, walnuts are a fitting ...

Over the course of human evolution, our brains expanded massively. One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It ...