Genetic study sheds light on changes that shaped human brain evolution

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genetic-human-brain-evolution.html

Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals, studies reveal

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-birds-complex-brains-independently-mammals.html?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2

Deep learning provides new view on 300 million years of brain evolution

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-deep-view-million-years-brain.html

Digitization of ‘breathtaking’ neuroanatomy slide collection offers untapped research gold mine

https://www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/digitization-of-breathtaking-neuroanatomy-slide-collection-offers-untapped-research-gold-mine/

Gene expression shifts help explain how a shrew changes brain size to match the seasons

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-gene-shifts-shrew-brain-size.html

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334991-100-why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future/

How brain evolution is linked to the use of tools

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-brain-evolution-linked-tools.html

Study links relative brain volume to temperament in diverse dog breeds

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-links-brain-volume-temperament-diverse.html

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456043-exquisite-bird-fossil-provides-clues-to-the-evolution-of-avian-brains/

How do brains coordinate activity? From fruit flies to monkeys, scientists discover a universal principle

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-brains-fruit-flies-monkeys-scientists.html

Cat brains age like ours — and could help scientists to understand cognitive decline

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03492-1

Prolonged brain development of marmosets could serve as model for human evolution

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-prolonged-brain-marmosets-human-evolution.html

Mosaic Brain Evolution Drives Learning in Tropical Butterfly

https://neurosciencenews.com/mosaic-brain-evolution-drives-learning-in-tropical-butterfly/

The Larger Brains of Humans Come With a Tragic Cost, Study Finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-larger-brains-of-humans-come-with-a-tragic-cost-study-finds

Domestication causes smaller brain size in dogs than in the wolf: Study challenges notion

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-domestication-smaller-brain-size-dogs.html

Size doesn't matter for mammals with more complex brains, according to new study

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-size-doesnt-mammals-complex-brains.html

A Change in The Development of Our Ovaries Could Have Led to Bigger Brains

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-change-in-the-development-of-our-ovaries-could-have-led-to-bigger-brains

Scientists Discover T. Rex Less Intelligent Than Believed

https://www.miragenews.com/scientists-discover-t-rex-less-intelligent-than-1224082/

What a big group of ancient brains could teach us about evolution

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68606720.amp

Humans have been speaking for a lot longer than we originally thought

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/human-language-study-origins-speaking-b2514451.html

Human brain cells put much more energy into signaling

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/human-brain-cells-put-much-more-energy-into-signaling/

Brains of newborns aren't underdeveloped compared to other primates, finds new study

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-brains-newborns-underdeveloped-primates.html

Can We Decode the Language of Our Primate Cousins?

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/can-we-decode-the-language-of-our-primate-cousins-382248

Les études sur le cerveau des humains préhistoriques sont-elles fiables ?

https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/sur-les-traces-de-la-prehistoire/les-etudes-sur-le-cerveau-des-humains-prehistoriques-sont-elles-fiables-1893682

The Evolution of Mammalian Brain Folding Has Been Revealed

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/the-evolution-of-mammalian-brain-folding-has-been-revealed-380540

What makes us human? UT Southwestern uncovers clues behind brain evolution

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/11/08/what-makes-us-human-ut-southwestern-uncovers-clues-behind-brain-evolution/

Cellular Map of Entire Brain Reveals What Makes Us Human

https://neurosciencenews.com/cellular-human-brain-map-24940/

Sing Smart: Vocal Learning Linked to Problem Solving Skills and Brain Size

https://scitechdaily.com/sing-smart-vocal-learning-linked-to-problem-solving-skills-and-brain-size/

How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-smart-were-dinosaurs-new-studies-fuel-the-debate/

All animal intelligence was shaped by just 5 leaps in brain evolution

https://theconversation.com/all-animal-intelligence-was-shaped-by-just-5-leaps-in-brain-evolution-208753?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton 

Octopuses shown to map their visual landscape much like humans do

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-octopuses-shown-visual-landscape-humans.html

Octopuses Can Rewire Their Brains to Brave Chilly Waters

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopuses-edit-their-rna-in-response-to-water-temperature-changes-180982357/

Cognitive archaeology, body cognition, and the evolution of visuospatial perception

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/cognitive-archaeology-body-cognition-and-the-evolution-of-visuospatial-perception/

Canine Brain Atlas Sheds Light on Evolution of Human Brain Function

https://neurosciencenews.com/dog-brain-atlas-evolution-23355/

Monkey magic: how they adapted to become better communicators

https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/monkey-magic-how-they-adapted-to-become-better-communicators

Homo naledi had a brain one-third the size of humans but displayed intelligence far beyond, according to new discovery

https://abcnews.go.com/US/homo-naledi-brain-size-humans-displayed-intelligence-new/story?id=99838407

How evolution has influenced the shape of the brain

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-evolution-brain.html

Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history

https://theconversation.com/imagination-makes-us-human-this-unique-ability-to-envision-what-doesnt-exist-has-a-long-evolutionary-history-190870

The first wiring map of an insect's brain hints at incredible complexity

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/09/1161645378/scientists-first-wiring-map-fruit-fly-brain-connectome-human-learning

Human temporal lobes are not very large in comparison with other primates

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-human-temporal-lobes-large-comparison.html

Team publishes study of the brain of the Homo erectus fossil with the lowest cranial capacity

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-team-publishes-brain-homo-erectus.html

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gene-expression-in-neurons-solves-a-brain-evolution-puzzle-20230214/

Scientists recreate brain of largest carnivorous dinosaur with fossils

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dinosaur-brain-fossils-isle-wight-b2281239.html%3famp

We discovered that whale and dolphin brains produce lots of heat. Why it matters

https://theconversation.com/we-discovered-that-whale-and-dolphin-brains-produce-lots-of-heat-why-it-matters-158534?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617870156

Lab-grown ancient nose receptors reveal how our ancestors smelled

https://newatlas.com/biology/neanderthal-denisovan-odor-receptors-smell-sensitivity/

Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate

Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution – new research

https://theconversation.com/fossil-teeth-reveal-how-brains-developed-in-utero-over-millions-of-years-of-human-evolution-new-research-193167

T. Rex May Have Been Intimidatingly Clever With Baboon-Like Brain Capacity

https://www.iflscience.com/t-rex-may-have-been-intimidatingly-clever-with-baboon-like-brain-capacity-66965

Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought

https://www.popsci.com/science/eating-meat-human-evolution-study/

How humans got a new gene that makes our brains larger

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/how-humans-got-a-new-gene-that-makes-our-brains-larger/

Study finds a striking difference between neurons of humans and other mammals

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/human-and-mammal-neurons

Fossilized brain of 525 million-year-old deep sea worm likely the oldest ever discovered

https://www.livescience.com/oldest-fossilized-brain-worm?utm_term=4E7E8246-032D-41D6-AAB2-E4F0ECFC3B98&utm_campaign=0CFA9D5B-9285-47DF-A018-5ED9E96C0C0B&utm_medium=email&utm_content=040A32F8-D25B-47AB-AAFA-38BCAA0D525C&utm_source=SmartBrief

It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/science/elephant-brains-trunks-faces.html#:~:text=The%20researchers%20found%20a%20neurological,operate%20the%20entire%20human%20face.

Woodpecker brains process their own tree-drumming as if it's birdsong

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338640-woodpecker-brains-process-their-own-tree-drumming-as-if-its-birdsong/

In the Mind of a Whale

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-mind-of-a-whale/

Study reveals striking differences in brains of modern humans and Neanderthals

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/08/study-reveals-striking-differences-in-brains-of-modern-humans-and-neanderthals

No, the Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago

https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-shrinkage-21195/

Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2331652-shape-of-human-brain-has-barely-changed-in-past-160000-years/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1659431121-1

Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/language-connectivity-evolution-20959/

Ant Brain Complexity Revealed for the First Time at a Cellular Level Using Single Cell Technology

https://neurosciencenews.com/ant-brain-social-20866/

Octopus brain and human brain share the same 'jumping genes'

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-octopus-brain-human-genes.html

Primates and Non-primates Differ in the Architecture of Their Neurons

https://neurosciencenews.com/primates-non-primate-axon-20736/

O que há de especial no cérebro humano que nos torna mais inteligentes que outros animais?

https://zap.aeiou.pt/especial-cerebro-humano-inteligentes-481580

'Mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts.

https://www.livescience.com/squid-octopus-genome-brains

Complex Human Childbirth and Cognitive Abilities a Result of Walking Upright

https://neurosciencenews.com/bipedalism-evolution-birth-20561/

Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains-were-bigger-3000-years-ago

Anthropology and neuropsychology to study how the brain evolved

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-anthropology-neuropsychology-brain-evolved.html

Ce n’est pas la taille du cerveau qui compte

https://www.numerama.com/sciences/857975-ce-nest-pas-la-taille-du-cerveau-qui-compte.html

Mammals’ bodies outpaced their brains right after the dinosaurs died

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammal-big-bodies-small-brains-dinosaur-extinction-fossils

Researchers discover genes unique to humans in search for source of our evolutionary distinctiveness

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-genes-unique-humans-source-evolutionary.html

Neuron counts reveal brain complexity evolution in land vertebrates

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-neuron-reveal-brain-complexity-evolution.html

'Very Intelligent Animals': Israeli Researchers Discover Octopuses' Impressive Cognitive Abilities

https://www.haaretz.com/1.10655964

How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-ancient-horseshoe-crab-brain

Brains are getting smaller in modern humans

https://www.psypost.org/2021/11/brains-are-getting-smaller-in-modern-humans-62124

Overlooked DNA may be what separates humans from other primates - study

https://www.jpost.com/science/overlooked-dna-may-be-what-separates-humans-from-other-primates-study-684927

Tool Use and Language Skills Are Linked in the Brain: Practicing One Improves the Other

https://neurosciencenews.com/tool-language-brain-19646/