Why Are Our Brains So Ridiculously Big?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolution/2012/10/human_brain_size_social_groups_led_to_the_evolution_of_large_brains.html

Cooking Food Could Be What Made People Smart

http://www.businessinsider.com/human-evolution-cooking-food-2012-10

Our big brains may make us prone to cancer

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22380-our-big-brains-may-make-us-prone-to-cancer.html

Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, 520-million-year-old fossilized arthropod confirms

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-complex-brains-evolved-earlier-previously.html

Evolution Mostly Driven by Brawn, Not Brains, Analysis Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015152005.htm

Homolog of Mammalian Neocortex Found in Bird Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121001151953.htm

Eating meat made us human, new skull fossil study suggests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49278817/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UG6TiBjO6so

Bird brains smarter than we think

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49005841/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UGYa8Ri9yuw

Human Brains Outpace Chimp Brains in Womb

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120924142922.htm

Compelling evidence that brain parts evolve independently

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-compelling-evidence-brain-evolve-independently.html

Compared With Chimps, Humans Slow to Insulate Nerve Fibers

http://tinyurl.com/c5mdd22

Ancient Human Kin’s DNA Code Illuminates Rise of Brains

http://tinyurl.com/9uxpfgq

The First Australopithecus, 1925

http://the-scientist.com/2012/07/01/the-first-australopithecus-1925

Dolphin Brain Genes Similar to Those of Humans

http://www.livescience.com/21196-dolphin-brain-evolution-intelligence.html

Who you calling dumb? Neanderthals possibly cave artists: study

http://tinyurl.com/c6cksgg

The living fossils of brain evolution

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-fossils-brain-evolution.html

Tiny Genetic Variations Led to Big Changes in the Evolving Human Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530152201.htm

Birds got smart by becoming big babes

http://bit.ly/LL9msf

Rare Neurons Found In Monkeys’ Brains

http://tinyurl.com/bs8ej2k

Book Review: The Omnivorous Mind: John S. Allen

http://tinyurl.com/c3q6sbx

Bipedalism, birth and brain evolution

http://tinyurl.com/cnpnx6d

Scientists show how a gene duplication helped our brains become 'human'

http://tinyurl.com/7oc8yvj

Cooperation Is a Key To Intelligence

http://tinyurl.com/cd39ogd

Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution

http://www.nature.com/news/marine-worm-rewrites-theory-of-brain-evolution-1.10226

Honeybees and humans share drive to explore

http://www.ecnmag.com/News/Feeds/2012/03/blogs-the-cutting-edge-honeybees-and-humans-share-drive-to-explore/

How to Build a Human Brain

http://www.livescience.com/18772-build-human-brain.html

Gorilla genome analysis reveals new human links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/07/gorilla-genome-analysis-new-human-link?CMP=twt_gu

First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21458-first-neanderthal-cave-paintings-discovered-in-spain.html

“Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind" by Mark Pagel; and “Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are” by Sebastian Seung

http://tinyurl.com/83f3rdt

How many neurons make a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/28/how-many-neurons-human-brain?CMP=twt_fd

Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21430-clint-eastwood-helps-reveal-secrets-of-brain-evolution.html

Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/human-brains-wire-up-slowly-but-.html

Every textbook on the brain is wrong - and our brains are more similar to monkeys than we thought

http://tinyurl.com/6mwt8fs

Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16305600

‘How to Think Like a Neandertal’ — By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge — Review

http://tinyurl.com/bthtbjk

Genes Play Major Role in Primate Social Behavior, Study Finds

http://tinyurl.com/d99kyb9

Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math, Study Finds

http://tinyurl.com/d2owuzh

A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-feet.html

Compared to Neanderthals, modern humans have a better sense of smell

http://tinyurl.com/c7ljd35

'Language gene' speeds learning

http://www.nature.com/news/language-gene-speeds-learning-1.9395

Genetic basis of human cortical regionalization similar to patterns found in other mammals, MRI study affirms

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111117/Genetic-basis-of-human-cortical-regionalization-similar-to-patterns-found-in-other-mammals-MRI-study-affirms.aspx

Study Finds the Key to Language: How Humans Form Sentences

Shttp://www.livescience.com/17225-study-finds-key-language-humans-form-sentences.html

Human brain evolution traced to gene activity

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5059/how-human-brain-and-cognitive-abilities-evolved#.Tt9mejlLrLw.blogger

Chimp brains may be hard-wired to evolve language

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21242-chimp-brains-may-be-hardwired-to-evolve-language.html

How do we humans fuel our big brains?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45230351/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tt3dH0pmiVI

Don't assume that feces-tossing chimp's a dummy

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57334036/dont-assume-that-feces-tossing-chimps-a-dummy/

Synesthesia Smells Like Evolution: The Benefit of Tasting Colors

http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/23/synesthesia-smells-like-evolution-the-benefit-of-tasting-colors

Baby apes' arm waving hints at origins of language

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21152-baby-apes-arm-waving-hints-at-origins-of-language.html

Young apes talk with hands

Baby apes' arm waving hints at origins of language

Brain de novo

Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution

Young genes in young humans

New Genes, New Brain

Right handedness left for something

Why are most people right-handed?

The Fossil Chronicles

Evolutionary clues from ancestors' brains?

Human Brain Aging Special

Brain Shrinkage: It's Only Human

Relative hemispheres

Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry

Illusions and brain organization

Brain trades off illusion-spotting and introspection

Brains shrink (still)

Scientist record decrease in human brain size