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

Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and (posited) future.

He thought birds lacked a neocortex, the thinking area in the mammalian brain where much of our higher ... to reexamine the long-standing Edinger model of avian neural anatomy.

Working with chimpanzees, Tomasello and colleagues showed ... to develop throughout childhood and into adolescence, as the brain develops and children acquire more life experience.

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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