We May Have 'Recycled' a Key Region of Our Brains as Humans Learned to Read

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-recycled-parts-of-our-brain-as-humans-learned-to-read

Parts of the human brain have been “recycled” for reading, indicates study

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200805/Parts-of-the-human-brain-have-been-e2809crecyclede2809d-for-reading-indicates-study.aspx

Study: Big brains allow dexterous hands

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-big-brains-dexterous.html

How the geometry of ancient habitats may have influenced human brain evolution

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/how-the-geometry-of-ancient-habitats-may-have-influenced-human-brain-evolution/

The Secrets Hiding in the Simplest Animal Brains

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-secrets-hiding-in-the-simplest-animal-brains?utm_source=emailsynd&utm_medium=social

MRI scans of the brains of 130 mammals, including humans, indicate equal connectivity

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-mri-scans-brains-mammals-humans.html

How Human Brains Are Different: It Has a Lot to Do with the Connections

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-human-brains-are-different-it-has-a-lot-to-do-with-the-connections/

Scientists produce a single-cell-resolution map of brain genes in humans and other primates

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-scientists-single-cell-resolution-brain-genes-humans.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Brain Gene Tops the List for Making Humans, Human

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/brain-gene-tops-list-making-humans-human-180975128/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Scientists Grow Bigger Monkey Brains Using Human Genes, Replicating Evolution

https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-grow-bigger-monkey-brains-using-human-genes-replicating-evolution

The brain’s imprint on the skull shows what separates humans from other primates

https://massivesci.com/notes/brain-lateralization-chimpanzee-gorilla-orangutan-apes-evolution/

Researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-history-brain-evolution-tyrannosaurs-modern.html

Scientists make a spectacular discovery about the origin of language in the brain

https://www.inverse.com/science/human-language-pathway-at-least-25-million-years-old

How Our Ancient Brains Are Coping in the Age of Digital Distraction

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-our-ancient-brains-are-coping-in-the-age-of-digital-distraction

Study Compares Parietal Lobes of Neanderthals and Modern Humans

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/fstudy-compares-parietal-lobes-of-neanderthals-and-modern-humans/127241

Lucy had an ape-like brain

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/lucy-had-an-ape-like-brain/127109

Big brains or many babies: How birds can thrive in urban environments

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-big-brains-babies-birds-urban.html

New clues about a huge, rare human brain cell

https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/news-press/articles/new-clues-about-huge-rare-human-brain-cell

Neanderthals Were About as Right-Handed as Modern Humans

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/did-neanderthals-have-dominant-hand/593836/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Australian bearded dragon may hold secrets to human sleep

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/australian-bearded-dragon-may-hold-secrets-human-sleep?utm_campaign=NewsfromScience&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Twitter

Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2233798-great-ape-brains-have-a-feature-that-we-thought-was-unique-to-humans/#ixzz6E2p69NmT

Squid Brains Are Nearly as Complex as Dog Brains, Researchers Claim

https://www.sciencealert.com/squid-brains-are-nearly-as-complex-as-dog-brains

How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain size, but blood flow

https://theconversation.com/how-smart-were-our-ancestors-turns-out-the-answer-isnt-in-brain-size-but-blood-flow-130387

Is schizophrenia a by-product of human evolution?

https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-human-evolution/

Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish and showed them film clips. The results were surprising

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/08/us/3d-glasses-cuttlefish-scn-trnd/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Why Your Brain Needs Exercise

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/

Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain

https://gizmodo.com/neuroscientists-discover-new-kind-of-signal-in-the-huma-1840776159

A ‘Mic Drop’ on a Theory of Language Evolution

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/when-did-ancient-humans-start-speak/603484/

The Evolution of the Human Brain

https://www.brainfacts.org/brain-anatomy-and-function/evolution/2019/the-evolution-of-the-human-brain-100219

Brains ‘are nearly 20% smaller than they used to be’ but does this matter?

https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/20/brains-smaller-idiocracy-theory-geary-male-female-brain-size-11176200/

Early humans ‘not as smart as modern apes'

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/science/2019/11/13/news/early-humans-not-as-smart-as-modern-apes--1764000/

The brain does not follow the head

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191015131450.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fevolution+%28Evolutionary+Biology+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Human 'mini-brains' slow at developing among primates

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50055547

Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216683-whales-evolved-large-brains-in-the-same-way-that-we-did/#ixzz60yYqXHLd

As humans shaped dogs’ bodies, we also altered their brains

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/02/humans-shaped-dogs-bodies-we-also-altered-their-brains/

Big brains or big guts: Choose one

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190823080016.htm

A tiny skull fossil suggests primate brain areas evolved separately

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/skull-fossil-suggests-primate-brain-areas-evolved-separately

Going the Distance: Brain Cells for 3D Vision Discovered

https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/41631/20190628/going-the-distance-brain-cells-for-3d-vision-discovered.htm

How mammals' brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-mammals-brains-evolved-distinguish-odors.html

How did elephants evolve such a large brain? Climate change is part of the answer

https://theconversation.com/how-did-elephants-evolve-such-a-large-brain-climate-change-is-part-of-the-answer-119354

Bats’ brains sync up when they socialise, study finds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bat-brain-waves-activity-autism-social-cues-cell-study-a8967291.html

Study of olfactory bulb ratio in modern birds suggests dinosaurs may have had strong sense of smell

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-olfactory-bulb-ratio-modern-birds.html

A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/10/730611589/a-musical-brain-may-help-us-understand-language-and-appreciate-tchaikovsky?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr

The Neanderthal Brain—Clues About Cognition

https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-brain/

How Researchers Used AI to Better Understand Biological Vision

https://singularityhub.com/2019/05/08/how-researchers-used-ai-to-better-understand-biological-vision/#sm.000016lhq5nszreuir489sswdxv86

The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/04/08/human-brains-have-shrunk-since-the-stone-age/#.XNL3oKZ7mWY

I feel you: Emotional mirror neurons found in the rat

https://neurosciencenews.com/emotional-mirror-neurons-rats-11066/

Monkeys Genetically Edited to Mimic Human Brain Development

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/monkeys-genetically-edited-to-mimic-human-brain-development-65724

Ancient Human Ancestors May Have Grown Big Brains Scavenging Bone Marrow

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/03/19/isns-human-ancestors-big-brains-meat/

Fat frenzy: did an early taste for bone marrow fuel hominin brain development?

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/fat-frenzy-did-an-early-taste-for-bone-marrow-fuel-hominin-brain-development

Scientists Have Grown Primate Brains-in-a-Dish on an Unprecedented Scale

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-mini-chimp-brains-in-the-lab-to-learn-more-about-human-evolution

Pioneering brain study reveals ‘software’ differences between humans and monkeys

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00198-7

Scientists uncover the genetics of monogamy

https://www.healthcanal.com/mental-health-behavior/247435-scientists-uncover-the-genetics-of-monogamy.html

El cerebro humano creció y se desarrolló gracias a estos genes: NOTCH2NL

https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/actualidad/cerebro-humano-crecio-y-se-desarrollo-gracias-a-estos-genes-notch2nl_12775/amp?__twitter_impression=true

When it comes to bee brains, size does not matter

https://www.earth.com/news/bee-brains-size/