Maybe it would be more comforting if there were still a few dinosaurs left, on another continent, of course. It’s just the thought that the part of my brain labeled my reptile brain is tough to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like a brain of a crocodile” – Carl Sagan, Cosmos. In science, reptiles have been ...

If you happen to be of the left-leaning persuasion, I imagine that you will find the results of this recent study quite satisfying. Researchers in the UK asked test subjects about their political ...

Our bodies have inherited many biological mechanisms from our hunter-gatherer ancestors. For instance, they should be capable of efficiently storing energy as fat tissue when they have access to a ...

The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. The ...

Only walking in the Spirit can renew our fleshly thinking into a kingdom mindset. Have you ever said something and then, moments later, cringed with shame as you replayed it in your mind? If so, ...

It’s not the individual brain regions but rather their connections that matter: neuroscientists propose a new model of how the brain works. This new view enables us to understand better why and how ...