"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold.

As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best known of our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, but ...

All non-aquatic vertebrates descend from a common ancestor, a tetrapod of approximately 360 million years ago – which possessed a tail. The existence of the tail was primarily for balance, ...

An international scientific team including more than 40 authors from seven different countries, led by a researcher at the University of Malaga Juan Pascual Anaya, has managed to sequence the first ...