The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published Jan. 30 in the journal Cell, researchers focused on a class of genetic switches known as Human Accelerated ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Studying chimpanzees has taught us a huge amount about our own evolution. A 2023 study in the journal Nature Communications revealed that chimpanzees have specific sounds associated with warning ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...