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A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain

In his new book, Rogier Mars provides a detailed account of animal and human brain evolution. In this excerpt from Chapter 1, he starts with the sea squirt—and why it needs the brain it eats after its...

The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

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The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

The lateral prefrontal cortex is involved in executive functions, but whether distinct anatomical subregions play different functional roles is not clear. This study shows that, in the monkey ventrola...

Abstract. The ventral visual stream has undergone extensive reorganization within the primate lineage. While some work has examined restructuring of the ve

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