Kent Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine, who led the study. Human and chimpanzee brain comparison. [Andipantz/Getty Images] Noonan’s lab is focused on understanding how HARs ...

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 ...

Vickery and his team applied algorithms to MRI scans from 189 chimpanzees ... and even found improvement in aging brain health when comparing chimpanzees and macaques, suggesting it's our unique ...