Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are ...

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The team's discovery comes from their ...

The physical similarities between humans and other mammals are quite plain. We are made of the same flesh and blood; we go through the same basic life stages. Yet reminders of our shared inheritance ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...