Human Brain Evolution Slows To A Crawl

Human Brain Evolution Slows To A Crawl

The human brain underwent explosive growth after we split from our chimp cousins, but the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has since slowed, says a…
How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

How did our evolutionary ancestors make sense of their world? What strategies did they use, for example, to find food? Fossils do not preserve thoughts, so we have so far been unable to glean any…