What Makes Our Brains Special?

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-our-brains-special/

The Unique Flexibility of the Human Brain

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/the-unique-flexibility-of-the-human-brain

Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures, study finds

http://www.psypost.org/2015/09/chimpanzee-personality-linked-to-anatomy-of-brain-structures-study-finds-38029

How to fossilize a brain

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-fossilize-brain-180957219/

Tiny protein 'compasses' found in fruit flies - and potentially humans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/16/tiny-protein-compasses-found-in-fruit-flies-and-potentially-humans?CMP=twt_gu

Tracing the Evolution of the Human Brain Through Casts of the Inner Skull

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article/70306/tracing-evolution-human-brain-through-casts-inner-skull

How Sound Shaped The Evolution Of Your Brain

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/10/436342537/how-sound-shaped-the-evolution-of-your-brain

Stem cell research hints at evolution of human brain

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-stem-cell-hints-evolution-human.html

Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660955-studying-cephalopods-may-illuminate-evolution-brains-all-sorts-tentacles

Blind cave fish evolved a shrunken brain to save energy

http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/sep/11/blind-cave-fish-evolved-an-energy-saving-shrunken-brain?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150910084610.htm

Single Molecular Event Holds Key to How We Evolved to Become the Smartest Animals

http://neurosciencenews.com/ptbp1-neuroscience-evolution-brain-2484/

New fossil skulls reveal insights about penguin brain evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150827111635.htm?

Old world monkey had tiny yet complex brain.

http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-complexity-vctoriapithecus-2193/

Brains, Genes, and Primates: The future of higher research on the planet of the apes

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-brains-genes-primates-future-higher.html

Bats in Flight: How Information About Airflow is Sent to the Brain

http://neurosciencenews.com/bat-flight-touch-evolution-2016

For an Octopus, Seeing the Light Doesn’t Require Eyes

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/science/for-an-octopus-seeing-the-light-doesnt-require-eyes.html?_r=0&referrer=

The fly's neural compass works just like a mammal's

Why would an animal lose its brain?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains

Thanks to evolution, blind cave-dwellers are rapidly losing the visual parts of their brains

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/08/thanks-to-evolution-blind-cave-dwellers-are-rapidly-losing-the-visual-parts-of-their-brains/

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150325-did-neurons-evolve-twice/

Researchers map switches that shaped the evolution of the human brain

http://app.rdmag.com/news/2015/03/researchers-map-switches-shaped-evolution-human-brain

Brain evolution and disease A Faustian bargain

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21645713-could-key-evolution-human-brain-be-found-dreadful?fsrc=rss%7Csct

'Big Brain' Gene Found in Humans, Not Chimps

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/big-brain-gene-found-in-humans-not-chimps-150226.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Mouse embryo with big brain: Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150219133104.htm

Complex environments push ‘brain’ evolution

http://bit.ly/1zjqtdd

World’s Oldest Butchery Tools Gave Evolutionary Edge to Human Communication

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-evolution-communication-tools-1697/