Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits of free-living populations? This multi-decade study of the evolution of clutch size in populations of great tits before, duri...

Franch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model...

The human brain is incomplete at birth, with streams of late-born interneurons migrating into the postnatal cortex. This process is absent in rodents, limiting mechanistic investigation to post-mortem...

This article discusses the preprinted work of Morassut et al. (2026 preprint). As a preprint, this work has not yet undergone peer review.

The PsychAD Consortium builds population-scale, single-cell models of the human brain to uncover the molecular mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease, related dementias, an...

Single-cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility maps of the human craniofacial region in developing embryos provide insights into the mechanisms underlying facial vari...

Single-cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility maps of the human craniofacial region in developing embryos provide insights into the mechanisms underlying facial vari...

Mammalian embryos see a substantial increase in available oxygen once the placenta forms. This increase in oxygen exposure serves as a trigger for initiating the development of the hindlimb, thus cont...

Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

This is a Perspective covering a Python toolbox for neuroscience research that enables users to fetch datasets, construct networks and null models, estimate graph metrics, fit statistical models and v...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Massively parallel reporter assays and human–ape hybrid skeletal cells are used to study the evolution of human cis-regulatory elements (CREs), revealing how differences in CREs have sh...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

The atlas of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex was created using samples from almost 1,500 donors of all ages — from infants to centenarians.

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Massively parallel reporter assays and human–ape hybrid skeletal cells are used to study the evolution of human cis-regulatory elements (CREs), revealing how differences in CREs have sh...

A large-scale functional screen identified noncoding variants that regulate gene activity during human brain development, providing insights into the molecular mechanisms that shape differences in hum...

Complex syntax is the widely accepted demarcation between animal and human communication. Although animal vocal systems occasionally contain pockets of syntax-like structures, their grammars are thoug...

A genome-wide meta-regression analysis of social behaviour studying ~500,000 observations from ~70,000 individuals, modelling context-specific SNP variation as explained by social domains, informants ...

Vocal communication is a conserved vertebrate social behavior that begins at birth with the cries of infants. These neonatal vocal signals vary across contexts to elicit parental care that matches inf...

Vocal communication is a conserved vertebrate social behavior that begins at birth with the cries of infants. These neonatal vocal signals vary across contexts to elicit parental care that matches inf...

Vocal communication is a conserved vertebrate social behavior that begins at birth with the cries of infants. These neonatal vocal signals vary across contexts to elicit parental care that matches inf...

The cerebellar nuclei, the output regions of the cerebellum, have evolved via repeated duplication of a conserved cell type set to produce different numbers of nuclei across species. Here, we investig...

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Dorsal and ventral noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus form topographic subpopulations whose projection patterns and activity encode choice switching, reward-prediction errors and disregard o...