A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A new study has examined how mothers influence the size of their child's head—and, as a result, brain size and future ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Human evolution is generally explained through changes in brain size, locomotion or tool use, but new research from Wits ...

Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images ) The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates. Birds, ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still there in the fossil record. But a new analysis argues that the trend did not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...