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

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

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 ...

We now know this is not true. The relationship between brain and body size is a curve, essentially meaning very large animals ...

A new study recently published in Psychophysiology has used machine learning to identify brain structures and networks ...

Scientists from the University of Reading, the University of Oxford and Durham University found that brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden ...