A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

A new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works.

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

A new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how mammals with larger ...

Marsupials are a group of mammals that encompass many of Australia's most iconic animals, unique because of their ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...