The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Contrary to the popularised image of mankind ‘arising ... to be getting crowded out as the human jaw gets smaller with a soft diet. However sometimes evolution finds a good use for vestigial ...

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.

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 ...