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Thursday, 20 December 2018

These Dinosaurs' Noses Made Breathing Complicated for a Very Good Reason


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Thursday, 13 December 2018

Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/science/neanderthals-humans-brains-skulls.html
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Labels: fossil, human

Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Research identifies a gene that makes our brains (and those of primates) unique


https://www.zmescience.com/science/primate-brain-genes-92636235/
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018

The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains


https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/the-evolutionary-mystery-of-gigantic-human-brains/
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Monday, 26 November 2018

Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Previously Hidden Region in The Human Brain


https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-region-of-the-human-brain-was-revealed-while-making-an-atlas/amp?__twitter_impression=
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Thursday, 22 November 2018

The Woman Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/
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Friday, 19 October 2018

Research gives new insight into the evolution of the nervous system

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-insight-evolution-nervous.html

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Labels: placozoan

Neuroscientists Have Found a Difference in Human Brain Cells That Could Help Explain Our Unique Intelligence

https://www.sciencealert.com/human-excitatory-neuron-dendrites-signal-processing-differs-to-rats

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Labels: human, rodent

Automatisme : un comportement pas si archaïque !


http://www4.cnrs-dir.fr/insb/recherche/parutions/articles2018/t-boraud.html

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Labels: executive function

Sunday, 14 October 2018

What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities


https://phys.org/news/2018-08-elephants-unique-brain-mental-abilities.html
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Friday, 12 October 2018

Why are humans so much smarter than other primates?


https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/09/24/why-are-humans-so-much-smarter-than-other-primates/#
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Labels: human, primate

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Elephants Have The Most Neurons. Why Aren't They The Smartest Animals?


https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/09/12/elephants-have-the-most-neurons-why-arent-they-the-smartest-animals/#77d2bb606afb
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Labels: elephant, intelligence, magnitude, mammal, neuron, size

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

¿Qué es la autodomesticación?


https://nutcrackerman.com/2018/10/09/que-es-autodomesticacion-what-is-self-domestication/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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Labels: domestication, human

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Non-human primate neuroimaging data may improve understanding of human brain disorders


https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/neuroimaging/neuroimaging-data-improve-understanding-brain-disorders
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Labels: database, human, neuroimaging, primate

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/09/21/
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Labels: archaeology, fossil, Neanderthal, size

Friday, 21 September 2018

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses



https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/octopuses-on-ecstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/
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Labels: cephalopod, social behavior

Octopuses Do Something Really Strange to Their Genes


https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuses-do-something-really-strange-to-their-genes/522024/
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Labels: cephalopod, genetics, molecular biology

Monday, 17 September 2018

Chimpanzee personality traits are linked to brain structure


https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-chimpanzee-personality-traits-linked-brain.html
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Labels: ape, personality

Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829133422.htm
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Labels: mammal

Friday, 7 September 2018

Scientists Discover A New Type Of Brain Cell In Humans


https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/08/27/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-brain-cell-in-humans/#6a177c4b3acd
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Labels: genetics, human, immunohistochemistry, mammal, molecular biology, neuron, rodent

Saturday, 11 August 2018

Primate speech: How some species are 'wired' for talk


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-45114322
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Labels: language, primate

Friday, 20 July 2018

What Makes Parrots So Intelligent?


https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/07/12/what-makes-parrots-so-intelligent/#2efd990e34e6
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Labels: bird, intelligence

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Neandertalogy: Why Should Psychologists Study Neandertals?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-think-neandertal/201803/neandertalogy-why-should-psychologists-study-neandertals?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Labels: fossil, health, Neanderthal

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory


http://nautil.us/blog/why-social-science-needs-evolutionary-theory
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Labels: culture, social behavior

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish


http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/exclusive-neanderthal-minibrains-grown-dish
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Labels: fossil, genetics, hominin, molecular biology, Neanderthal

We Are What They Ate


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mind-menagerie/201806/we-are-what-they-ate
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Labels: diet, size

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Male Guppies Grow Larger Brains in Response to Predator Exposure


https://neurosciencenews.com/guppie-predator-brain-9256/
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Labels: fish, predation, size

Bigger Human Brain Prioritizes Thinking Hub – at a Cost


https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2018/bigger-human-brain-prioritizes-thinking-hub-at-a-cost.shtml
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Labels: human, size

Friday, 1 June 2018

Aging-Related Diseases May Be A Negative Outcome Of Human Evolution


https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.amp/articleNo/54716/title/Aging-Related-Diseases-May-Be-a-Negative-Outcome-of-Human-Evolution
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Labels: aging, health, human, trade-off

El gen que esculpió nuestro cerebro


https://amp.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/05/31/5b10085846163f41668b4614.html?__twitter_impression=true
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Labels: genetics

Friday, 25 May 2018

7 millions d'années d'évolution du cerveau


https://www.lesechos.fr/amp/81/1164481.php?__twitter_impression=
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Labels: endocast, fossil, hominin

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Can simulating evolution on a computer explain our enormous brains?


https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-simulating-evolution-enormous-brains.html
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Labels: human, size

Saturday, 19 May 2018

One Gene Spurred Growth of Key Brain Area


http://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-cerebral-cortex-8797/amp/?__twitter_impression=
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Labels: genetics

Friday, 11 May 2018

Scientists put a crocodile in an fMRI machine and played it Bach. Here’s why


https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/fmri-crocodile-bach/amp/?__twitter_impression=
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Labels: neuroimaging, reptile

Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/11/scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna?
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Labels: fossil, genetics, hominin, Neanderthal

Friday, 27 April 2018

Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-brain-gain-computer-models-hint-at-why-we-bested-neandertals/
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Labels: human

Wednesday, 11 April 2018

New Thoughts on Ancient Hominin Brains


https://www.archaeology.org/news/6471-new-thoughts-on-ancient-hominin-brains?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=
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Labels: fossil, hominin

Sunday, 1 April 2018

In Humans and Animals, Social Learning Drives Intelligence


http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beastly-behavior/201803/in-humans-and-animals-social-learning-drives-intelligence?amp&__twitter_impression=
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Labels: human, intelligence, size, social behavior

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Evolution of brain development

https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/86282-jorge-torres-paz/posts/30738-evolution-of-brain-development
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Labels: development

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Food for thought: was cooking a pivotal step in human evolution?


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Labels: diet, fossil, hominin, human

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Brain size of human ancestors evolved gradually over 3 million years


https://phys.org/news/2018-02-brain-size-human-ancestors-evolved.amp?__twitter_impression=
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Labels: brain size, fossil, hominin, human

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Small but distinct differences among species mark evolution of human brain


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171124084336.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmind_brain%2Fneuroscience+%28Neuroscience+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
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Labels: genetics, human

Mapping Out Genetic ‘Switches’ Behind Human Brain Evolution


http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-genetics-brain-8301/?utm_campaign=crowdfire&utm_content=crowdfire&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#3202245915-tw#1515807087168
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Labels: genetics, human
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