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

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

Scientists have long suspected that the trillions of microbes in our intestines do more than digest lunch, but new work goes ...

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

Earlier research from Amato’s lab found that gut microbes from primates with larger brains produce more energy when ...

Crows and their corvid kin have brains that, relative to their body size, are among the largest of any bird. Crows congregate in Burnaby, British Columbia. Research suggests that like humans and other ...

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...