Language and tool-making skills evolved at same time, study says

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-language-tool-making-skills-evolved.html

Bird Brained: Researchers Discover ‘Common Blueprint’ Between Human and Bird Brains

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/491490/20130717/human-bird-brains-similar-wiring-evolution-common.htm

Planarians Don't Just Regenerate Their Heads, They Regenerate Their Memories

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/8128/20130712/planarian-dont-regenerate-heads-memories-video.htm

Hobbits’ Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/hobbits-size-not-likely-linked-to-growth-disorders.html

Neandertals Shared Speech and Language With Modern Humans, StudySuggests.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709115252.htm

In Fish Brains, A Clue To Why We Talk With Our Hands

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/fish-brains-clue-why-we-gesticulate-when-we-talk

Study confirms social brain theory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23045905

Most detailed 3D map of human brain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10133452/Most-detailed-3D-map-of-human-brain.html

The Brain Science Behind Our Obsession With Tools

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/nueroscience/the-brain-science-behind-our-obsession-with-tools-15549633

Brain frontal lobes not sole center of human intelligence, comparative research suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130513152827.htm

Who’re You Calling a Neanderthal?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/global/Who-Are-You-Calling-a-Neanderthal.html

For Rats, Seasonal Depression Comes In Spring, Not Winter

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112831942/rats-get-depression-in-spring-not-winter-042613/

'Master Gene' Makes Mouse Brain Look More Human

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/master-gene-makes-mouse-brain-lo.html

Big brains, no fur, sinuses … are these clues to our ancestors' lives as 'aquatic apes'?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/27/aquatic-ape-theory-primate-evolution

Competing pathways affect early differentiation of higher brain structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130426115636.htm

Humans and Chimps Evolved Lopsided Brains

http://www.livescience.com/28986-humans-evolved-asymmetric-brains.html

Scientists puzzle over how bat brains and rat brains build mental maps - Science

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/18/17808967-scientists-puzzle-over-how-bat-brains-and-rat-brains-build-mental-maps

'Hobbit' had bigger brain than thought

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784013-hobbit-had-bigger-brain-than-thought

Brain size didn't drive primate evolution, research suggests

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17502596-brain-size-didnt-drive-primate-evolution-research-suggests

Pig Brain Atlas Developed To Provide Clues Into Human Cognitive Development

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112804016/pig-brain-atlas-for-human-cognitive-development-031513/

The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323869604578370574285382756.html

What a Fish's Brain Says, and Doesn't Say, About Yours

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/nueroscience/what-a-fishs-brain-says-and-doesnt-say-about-yours-15234337

Neanderthals Doomed by Vision-Centered Brains

http://www.livescience.com/27850-social-brain-beat-neanderthal-vision.html

Why Humans Get Lost

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/why-humans-get-lost-130312.htm

Handedness in Marsupials Is Dependent On Gender

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305200312.htm

Human Brain Cells Boost Mouse Memory

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/human-brain-cells-boost-mouse-me.html

Has Evolution Given Humans Unique Brain Structures?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222120753.htm

Dinosaur Brains Were Little Even In Huge Species, Sauropod Skull Fossil Suggests

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/dinosaur-brains-titanosaur-skull-fossil_n_2538912.html

Genome-Wide Atlas of Gene Enhancers in the Brain Online

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130131144415.htm

With Evolved Brains, Robots Creep Closer To Animal-Like Learning

http://www.fastcompany.com/3005313/evolved-brains-robots-creep-closer-animal-learning

Human Intelligence Secrets Revealed by Chimp Brains

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-intelligence-secret

Crows Really Are Mind-Readers

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/crows-really-are-mind-readers/

Big Brains: What You and (Some) Guppies Have in Common

http://science.time.com/2013/01/08/big-brains-what-you-and-some-guppies-have-in-common/?hpt=hp_bn16

Research reveals new information on the evolution of dinosaur senses

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-reveals-evolution-dinosaur.html

Key Gene for Brain Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121213151446.htm

Vertebrates have tiny sea worm to thank for their intelligence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50058945/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UMxGEoVGrv4

Civilisation is making humanity less intelligent, study claims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9672790/Civilisation-is-making-humanity-less-intelligent-study-claims.html

Did Exercise Make the Human Brain So Buff?

http://www.livescience.com/24945-exercise-human-brain-evolution.html

Epigenetics Provides A Better Understanding Of The Inner Workings Of Our Brain

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112735797/brain-evolution-epigenome-chromatin-state-looping-112212/

Study: Music, language's common evolutionary roots lie in emotion

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-amusia-music-language-emotion-darwin-evolution-20121030,0,5025585.story

New Study Sheds Light On How and When Vision Evolved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121029154324.htm

Who's a clever boy: Scientists stunned by Figaro, the cockatoo who can make his own tools to get food

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2228229/Whos-pretty-clever-boy--cockatoo-make-use-tools.html

Ever Wonder What Elephants Would Have to Say?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/science/surrounded-by-humans-korean-elephant-learns-to-speak.html

Shark brains 'similar to those of humans'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9643039/Shark-brains-similar-to-those-of-humans.html

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