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

New experiments have revealed something mind-blowing—apes are capable of communicating unknown information to humans! In ...

Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Humans have caused the loss of the only male chimpanzee in one social group — and as a result at least one traditional ...

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

A new study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

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

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...