A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

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

Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size of our brains may have been influenced by the gut microbiome. The microbes in the ...

Microbes are generally supposed to be invisible to the naked eye, but in the Caribbean, a microbe that can grow up to two centimeters has been described, making scientists question what it really ...

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