We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months – give or take – some 100 billion neurons have sprung from a single 3 millimetre “neural tube” in ...

Human beings tend to be anthropocentric. That is, we often see ourselves as evolution’s magnum opus despite the fact that, as biomass goes, we’re insignificant compared to plants and other animals.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But what if consciousness isn't a feature limited solely to humans—and what if we're actually wildly outnumbered by a planet full ...