Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16305600

‘How to Think Like a Neandertal’ — By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge — Review

http://tinyurl.com/bthtbjk

Genes Play Major Role in Primate Social Behavior, Study Finds

http://tinyurl.com/d99kyb9

Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math, Study Finds

http://tinyurl.com/d2owuzh

A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-feet.html

Compared to Neanderthals, modern humans have a better sense of smell

http://tinyurl.com/c7ljd35

'Language gene' speeds learning

http://www.nature.com/news/language-gene-speeds-learning-1.9395

Genetic basis of human cortical regionalization similar to patterns found in other mammals, MRI study affirms

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111117/Genetic-basis-of-human-cortical-regionalization-similar-to-patterns-found-in-other-mammals-MRI-study-affirms.aspx

Study Finds the Key to Language: How Humans Form Sentences

Shttp://www.livescience.com/17225-study-finds-key-language-humans-form-sentences.html

Human brain evolution traced to gene activity

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5059/how-human-brain-and-cognitive-abilities-evolved#.Tt9mejlLrLw.blogger

Chimp brains may be hard-wired to evolve language

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21242-chimp-brains-may-be-hardwired-to-evolve-language.html

How do we humans fuel our big brains?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45230351/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tt3dH0pmiVI

Don't assume that feces-tossing chimp's a dummy

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57334036/dont-assume-that-feces-tossing-chimps-a-dummy/

Synesthesia Smells Like Evolution: The Benefit of Tasting Colors

http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/23/synesthesia-smells-like-evolution-the-benefit-of-tasting-colors

Baby apes' arm waving hints at origins of language

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21152-baby-apes-arm-waving-hints-at-origins-of-language.html

Young apes talk with hands

Baby apes' arm waving hints at origins of language

Brain de novo

Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution

Young genes in young humans

New Genes, New Brain

Right handedness left for something

Why are most people right-handed?

The Fossil Chronicles

Evolutionary clues from ancestors' brains?

Human Brain Aging Special

Brain Shrinkage: It's Only Human

Relative hemispheres

Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry

Illusions and brain organization

Brain trades off illusion-spotting and introspection

Brains shrink (still)

Scientist record decrease in human brain size

Growth gene NDE1

Single Gene Linked to Evolution of Human Brain

LAMC3 role for occipital sulci

Gene responsible for the unique development of human brains is 'discovered'

Origin of Consciousness

Digging into our consciousness

Big Brains Smell

In Evolution of Brains, Sense of Smell Came First

Small Yet Modern Hominin Brain

Four Individuals Caught in 'Death Trap' May Shed Light on Human Ancestors

Quick Changes to Prefrontal Metabolism

Evolution of cognition might be down to brain chemistry

Brainy Mammals Wean Later

Longer Breast-Feeding May Be Key to Bigger Brains

Deletions related to penis spines and brains

Why humans have big brains but don't have whiskers or penises with spines

2500 year old brain didn't rot

2,500-Year-Old Preserved Human Brain Discovered

Wiring mammalian brains

The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex

Fly Brain

Decoding the Human Brain, With Help From a Fly

Flying Brains

Fossilized Bird Brains May Yield Secret of First Flights