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/