Medical research
Say what? Like animals, people perk up their ears to hear
(HealthDay)—Like many other animals, people can move their ears to focus on a specific sound, researchers say.
Aug 4, 2020
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News tagged with human evolution
Genetics
Human brain size gene triggers bigger brain in monkeys
The expansion of the human brain during evolution, specifically of the neocortex, is linked to cognitive abilities such as reasoning and language. A certain gene called ARHGAP11B that is only found in humans triggers brain ...
Jun 18, 2020
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Genetics
Human pregnancy is weird—new research adds to the mystery
From an evolutionary perspective, human pregnancy is quite strange, says University at Buffalo biologist Vincent Lynch.
Apr 21, 2020
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Health
Paleo fact and fiction: The key to being healthy
Humans have conquered smallpox and drastically reduced child mortality rates, yet we now face problems never seen before. Conditions like heart disease, obesity, cancer, and diabetes pose serious threats to our health. How ...
Feb 27, 2020
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Genetics
New clues into the genetic origins of schizophrenia
The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, appears in the Jan. 31 issue of the journal Science. An international group of scientists conducted the research, including ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Health
Feeling sick is an emotion meant to help you get better faster
You know what it's like to be sick. You feel fatigued, maybe a little depressed, less hungry than usual, more easily nauseated and perhaps more sensitive to pain and cold.
Dec 17, 2019
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Dentistry
This new discovery could allow dentists to regenerate the roots of teeth
To figure out how the body changes over time, researchers are increasingly looking to understand epigenetics, the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic ...
Aug 5, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Evolution could explain why staying slim is so tough
(HealthDay)—It's not easy maintaining a healthy weight. Even when you manage to drop a few pounds, they often return.
Jul 16, 2019
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Neuroscience
Network analysis applied to the study of cerebral macroanatomy
The CENIEH researcher Emiliano Bruner has led a study which uses networks to investigate the geometric relationship among the principal regions of the cerebral cortex.
Jun 25, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The relationship between human self-domestication and brain evolution
Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has just published an opinion paper about self-domestication and visuospatial cognition in the humans, which ...
May 21, 2019
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