Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

The international research team, which included CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), discovered that ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

What if your gut microbes helped power your brain? A new study reveals that the energy-hungry human brain may have evolved with a big assist from our gut bacteria. By transplanting gut microbes from ...

What events led to differences between humans and other primates? What changes throughout evolution underlie such a dramatic shift in how we socialize and process information? Although somewhat ...

Microbes supporting the production of more metabolic energy could be key to the evolution of large brains First study to show gut microbes from different animal species shape variations in their ...