Primates have big brains, but so do elephants and whales. Elephants and whales, however, have much larger bodies that their ...

Brain size is tightly correlated with body size in most animals. But humans break the mould. Our brains are much larger than expected given our body size. Here are some animals’ brains ranked ...

It's not unusual for animals like bears to build their body mass in the lead-up to winter ... as well as genes that regulate cell death that we propose may be associated with reductions in brain size.

We now know this is not true. The relationship between brain and body size is a curve, essentially meaning very large animals have smaller brains than expected." Professor Rob Barton, co-author of ...

Now, scientists have suggested that the large size of our brains may have been influenced ... but put on less body fat compared to mice with small-brain primate gut microbes, which converted more ...