HumansOur big brains may have evolved because of placental sex hormones Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in utero, which may have shaped our evolutionary brain development 51¶¯Âþ
HumansWhat the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially changing how we think of the earliest hominins 51¶¯Âþ