Research reveals new information on the evolution of dinosaur senses

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-reveals-evolution-dinosaur.html

Key Gene for Brain Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121213151446.htm

Vertebrates have tiny sea worm to thank for their intelligence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50058945/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UMxGEoVGrv4

Civilisation is making humanity less intelligent, study claims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9672790/Civilisation-is-making-humanity-less-intelligent-study-claims.html

Did Exercise Make the Human Brain So Buff?

http://www.livescience.com/24945-exercise-human-brain-evolution.html

Epigenetics Provides A Better Understanding Of The Inner Workings Of Our Brain

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112735797/brain-evolution-epigenome-chromatin-state-looping-112212/

Study: Music, language's common evolutionary roots lie in emotion

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-amusia-music-language-emotion-darwin-evolution-20121030,0,5025585.story

New Study Sheds Light On How and When Vision Evolved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121029154324.htm

Who's a clever boy: Scientists stunned by Figaro, the cockatoo who can make his own tools to get food

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2228229/Whos-pretty-clever-boy--cockatoo-make-use-tools.html

Ever Wonder What Elephants Would Have to Say?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/science/surrounded-by-humans-korean-elephant-learns-to-speak.html

Shark brains 'similar to those of humans'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9643039/Shark-brains-similar-to-those-of-humans.html

Why Are Our Brains So Ridiculously Big?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolution/2012/10/human_brain_size_social_groups_led_to_the_evolution_of_large_brains.html

Cooking Food Could Be What Made People Smart

http://www.businessinsider.com/human-evolution-cooking-food-2012-10

Our big brains may make us prone to cancer

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22380-our-big-brains-may-make-us-prone-to-cancer.html

Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, 520-million-year-old fossilized arthropod confirms

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-complex-brains-evolved-earlier-previously.html

Evolution Mostly Driven by Brawn, Not Brains, Analysis Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015152005.htm

Homolog of Mammalian Neocortex Found in Bird Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121001151953.htm

Eating meat made us human, new skull fossil study suggests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49278817/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UG6TiBjO6so

Bird brains smarter than we think

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49005841/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UGYa8Ri9yuw

Human Brains Outpace Chimp Brains in Womb

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120924142922.htm

Compelling evidence that brain parts evolve independently

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-compelling-evidence-brain-evolve-independently.html

Compared With Chimps, Humans Slow to Insulate Nerve Fibers

http://tinyurl.com/c5mdd22

Ancient Human Kin’s DNA Code Illuminates Rise of Brains

http://tinyurl.com/9uxpfgq

The First Australopithecus, 1925

http://the-scientist.com/2012/07/01/the-first-australopithecus-1925

Dolphin Brain Genes Similar to Those of Humans

http://www.livescience.com/21196-dolphin-brain-evolution-intelligence.html

Who you calling dumb? Neanderthals possibly cave artists: study

http://tinyurl.com/c6cksgg

The living fossils of brain evolution

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-fossils-brain-evolution.html

Tiny Genetic Variations Led to Big Changes in the Evolving Human Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530152201.htm

Birds got smart by becoming big babes

http://bit.ly/LL9msf

Rare Neurons Found In Monkeys’ Brains

http://tinyurl.com/bs8ej2k

Book Review: The Omnivorous Mind: John S. Allen

http://tinyurl.com/c3q6sbx

Bipedalism, birth and brain evolution

http://tinyurl.com/cnpnx6d

Scientists show how a gene duplication helped our brains become 'human'

http://tinyurl.com/7oc8yvj

Cooperation Is a Key To Intelligence

http://tinyurl.com/cd39ogd

Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution

http://www.nature.com/news/marine-worm-rewrites-theory-of-brain-evolution-1.10226

Honeybees and humans share drive to explore

http://www.ecnmag.com/News/Feeds/2012/03/blogs-the-cutting-edge-honeybees-and-humans-share-drive-to-explore/

How to Build a Human Brain

http://www.livescience.com/18772-build-human-brain.html

Gorilla genome analysis reveals new human links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/07/gorilla-genome-analysis-new-human-link?CMP=twt_gu

First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21458-first-neanderthal-cave-paintings-discovered-in-spain.html

“Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind" by Mark Pagel; and “Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are” by Sebastian Seung

http://tinyurl.com/83f3rdt

How many neurons make a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/28/how-many-neurons-human-brain?CMP=twt_fd

Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21430-clint-eastwood-helps-reveal-secrets-of-brain-evolution.html

Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/human-brains-wire-up-slowly-but-.html

Every textbook on the brain is wrong - and our brains are more similar to monkeys than we thought

http://tinyurl.com/6mwt8fs