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/

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

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578512/?__twitter_impression=

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

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

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

https://www.zmescience.com/science/primate-brain-genes-92636235/

The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains

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

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=

The Woman Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/

Research gives new insight into the evolution of the nervous system

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

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

Automatisme : un comportement pas si archaïque !

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

What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities

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

Why are humans so much smarter than other primates?

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

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

¿Qué es la autodomesticación?

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

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

https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/neuroimaging/neuroimaging-data-improve-understanding-brain-disorders

Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/09/21/

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses

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

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/

Chimpanzee personality traits are linked to brain structure

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-45114322

What Makes Parrots So Intelligent?

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

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

Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory

http://nautil.us/blog/why-social-science-needs-evolutionary-theory

Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/exclusive-neanderthal-minibrains-grown-dish

We Are What They Ate

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

Male Guppies Grow Larger Brains in Response to Predator Exposure

https://neurosciencenews.com/guppie-predator-brain-9256/

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

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

El gen que esculpió nuestro cerebro

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

7 millions d'années d'évolution du cerveau

https://www.lesechos.fr/amp/81/1164481.php?__twitter_impression=

Can simulating evolution on a computer explain our enormous brains?

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-simulating-evolution-enormous-brains.html

One Gene Spurred Growth of Key Brain Area

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

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=

Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/11/scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna?

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/