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Friday, 23 December 2022

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


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

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Labels: allometry, cell biology, human, mammal, physiology

Monday, 12 December 2022

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
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Labels: arthropod, fossil

Thursday, 27 October 2022

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.
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Labels: elephant, human

Wednesday, 21 September 2022

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/
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Labels: birds, music, vocal learning

In the Mind of a Whale


https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-mind-of-a-whale/
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Labels: cetacean, cognition, intelligence

Thursday, 8 September 2022

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
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Labels: cerebral cortex, fossil, human, Neanderthal

Friday, 12 August 2022

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


https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-shrinkage-21195/
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Labels: brain size, Homo, human

Tuesday, 2 August 2022

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
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Labels: endocast, fossil, Homo, human

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain


https://neurosciencenews.com/language-connectivity-evolution-20959/
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Labels: connectomics, human, language, primate

Saturday, 25 June 2022

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


https://neurosciencenews.com/ant-brain-social-20866/
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Labels: brain cell types, insect, molecular biology

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



https://phys.org/news/2022-06-octopus-brain-human-genes.html
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Labels: cephalopod, genetics, human

Saturday, 4 June 2022

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


https://neurosciencenews.com/primates-non-primate-axon-20736/
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Labels: brain cell types, human, mammal, primate

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

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
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Labels: brain size, human, intelligence

Thursday, 12 May 2022

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


https://www.livescience.com/squid-octopus-genome-brains
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Labels: cephalopod, genetics, intelligence

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Complex Human Childbirth and Cognitive Abilities a Result of Walking Upright


https://neurosciencenews.com/bipedalism-evolution-birth-20561/
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Labels: childbirth, human, locomotion

Monday, 9 May 2022

Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago



https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains-were-bigger-3000-years-ago
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Labels: brain size, Homo, human

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Anthropology and neuropsychology to study how the brain evolved

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-anthropology-neuropsychology-brain-evolved.html
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Labels: fossil, neuroimaging

Friday, 8 April 2022

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
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Labels: brain size, fossil, Homo, size

Mammals’ bodies outpaced their brains right after the dinosaurs died



https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammal-big-bodies-small-brains-dinosaur-extinction-fossils
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Labels: brain size, fossil, mammal

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

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
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Labels: human, molecular biology

Neuron counts reveal brain complexity evolution in land vertebrates

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

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

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


https://www.haaretz.com/1.10655964
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Labels: cephalopod, cognition, intelligence

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

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



https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-ancient-horseshoe-crab-brain
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Labels: arthropod, fossil, taphonomy
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