Humans have lived in a dynamic environment fraught with potential dangers for thousands
of years. While fear and stress were crucial for the survival of our ancestors, today, they are …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

Previous work has indicated that acute and repeated stress can alter thyroid hormone
secretion. Corticosterone, the end product of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis …

How did humans evolve larger and more sophisticated brains? In general, evolution
depends on a special combination of circumstances: part genetics, part time, and part …

The importance of thyroid hormones during brain development has been appreciated for
many decades. In humans, low levels of circulating maternal thyroid hormones, eg, caused …

The neural crest hypothesis states that the phenotypic features of the domestication
syndrome are due to a reduced number or disruption of neural crest cells (NCCs) migration …

Some 35 years ago, Desmond Clark (1975) predicted that Africa was in the process of
moving from peripheral to paramount in the narrative of human evolution. Nowhere has this …

Two hundred million people worldwide experience some form of thyroid disorder, with
women being especially at risk. However, why human thyroid function varies between …

Adaptive evolution may be linked with the genomic distribution and function of short tandem
repeats (STRs). Proximity of the core promoter STRs to the+ 1 transcription start site (TSS) …