The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Dr Svenson comes to Oxford University from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio, USA), where he was curator of Invertebrate Zoology and, since 2022, chief science officer.

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The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...

In a nutshell Human placentas produce exceptionally high hormone levels that may have driven our brain evolution, not male ...

Elevated hormone levels in the womb, combined with enhanced placental function, may have played a key role in human evolution ...

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