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Gut microbes are reshaping how scientists view brain evolution

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

Microbes may hold the key to brain evolution

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...
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Gut Microbes May Have Aided the Evolution of the Human Brain

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...
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Study sheds light on the genetic changes that shaped human brain evolution

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...