New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

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The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...