From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region

https://phys.org/news/2026-11-wild-mild-friendly-foxes-brain.html

Early humans and computational paleoneurology

Early humans and computational paleoneurology

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/early-humans-and-computational-paleoneurology/

Crossed Brain Wiring May Trace Back 500 Million Years To Ancient Fish Eyes

Crossed Brain Wiring May Trace Back 500 Million Years To Ancient Fish Eyes

https://studyfinds.com/brain-wiring-trace-back-ancient-fish-eyes/

What makes us human? Researchers compare brain development in humans and great apes

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-human-brain-humans-great-apes.html

Smaller ants devote more of their resting energy budget to their brains

Smaller ants devote more of their resting energy budget to their brains https://phys.org/news/2026-10-smaller-ants-devote-resting-energy.html

New platform enables multimodal recording in the wild

New platform enables multimodal recording in the wild https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imaging/wild-platform-levels-up-ability-to-record-brain-activity-behavior-in-nature/

Out of Darkness, Blind Cavefish Illuminate Brain Evolution

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/blind-cavefish-brain-evolution-study.php

Dog Brains Segment Speech Into Words With a Humanlike Consonant Bias

Dog Brains Segment Speech Into Words With a Humanlike Consonant Bias

https://bioengineer.org/dog-brains-segment-speech-into-words-with-a-humanlike-consonant-bias/

First complete songbird genome reveals hidden biology

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/40239-first-complete-songbird-genome-reveals-hidden-biology/

The Evolution of the Human Brain Set It Up for Failure

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/10/alzheimers-evolution/689062/

Humans and songbirds organize the same sounds differently

Humans and songbirds organize the same sounds differently

Chimp and gorilla brains resist weight loss with age — unlike human brains

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03158-0

3D genome 'entanglement' may explain how cephalopods evolved complex brains

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-3d-genome-entanglement-cephalopods-evolved.html

Scientists Finally Figured Out Why 90% of Humans Are Right-Handed

https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-finally-figured-out-why-90-of-humans-are-right-handed/

Fossil study finds vision—not the 'thinking' frontal lobe—drove varied brain development in primates

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fossil-vision-frontal-lobe-drove.html

Study Supports and Expands the Primate Brain Lag Hypothesis

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-lag-evolutionary-30977/

Brain organoids uncover how primates develop different brain shapes

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-brain-organoids-uncover-primates.html

If humans are getting smarter, why are our brains shrinking?

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/if-humans-are-getting-smarter-why-are-our-brains-shrinking

Scaled up to size, a raccoon brain would contain roughly the same number of neurons as a human brain.

https://fortune.com/2026/01/16/are-raccoons-intelligent-drunk-passed-out-in-liquor-store-neuroscientist-nearby/?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=social_share

Neuroscience has a species problem

https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-models/neuroscience-has-a-species-problem/

Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird

https://nautil.us/inside-the-not-so-dumb-head-of-the-dodo-bird-1283522

‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/08/this-is-dangerous-slime-moulds-and-the-bitter-debate-over-the-nature-of-intelligence?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Cats age like humans—could studying their brains reveal healthy aging secrets?

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-cats-age-humans-brains-reveal.html

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01302-4

How a Brainless Organism Learns Using Neuron-Like Machinery

https://neurosciencenews.com/single-cell-learning-camkii-30629/

‘The Brain, In Theory,’ an excerpt

https://www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-neuroscience/the-brain-in-theory-an-excerpt/

Dogs’ brains began to shrink at least 5,000 years ago, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/29/dogs-brains-shrink-5000-years-ago?CMP=share_btn_url

‘The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,’ an excerpt

https://www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/the-fox-the-shrew-and-you-how-brains-evolved-an-excerpt/

Chimpanzee calls trigger unique brain activity in humans, revealing shared vocal processing skills

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chimpanzee-trigger-unique-brain-humans.html

Microbes may hold the key to brain evolution

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-microbes-key-brain-evolution.html