Birdsong and human speech turn out to be controlled by the same genes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/12/11/birdsong-and-human-speech-turn-out-to-be-controlled-by-the-same-genes/

How Did Brains Evolve?

http://io9.com/how-did-brains-evolve-1653897356

The smart mouse with the half-human brain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26639-the-smart-mouse-with-the-halfhuman-brain.html

Scientists Detect Brain Network That Gives Humans Superior Reasoning Skills

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuropsychology-reasoning-evolution-1593/

Neural 3-D compass discovered in mammalian brain

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-neural-d-compass-mammalian-brain.html

Dogs’ brains may process speech similar to humans’

www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/dogs-brains-may-process-speech-similar-humans