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The human brain is up to three times larger in volume than the brains of chimpanzees, gorillas and many extinct human relatives. Brain size is tightly correlated with body size in most animals.

Four lab-grown chimpanzee "mini-brains". Each one is about the size of a small pea New research shows that human "mini-brains" develop more slowly than those of other primates. "Mini-brains" are ...

The team's measurements revealed that LB1's brain was as small as that of 3.2 million-year-old "Lucy," or about the size of a chimp's. (See Who's Who in Human Evolution for more on our rich ...

The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within ...

the human brain is almost twice as large as the brain of the bottlenose dolphin, and three times as large as the brain of a chimpanzee.

We’ve long known that our brains are essentially animalistic, with concepts such as the chimp and reptile brain well-documented in modern neuroscience. Here, psychologist and bestselling author ...

Although similar in many ways to A. afarensis, this species had a slightly larger brain (but still only slightly larger than a chimp's brain), smaller canine teeth, and larger molars. The wear of ...