The bigger your brain, the longer you yawn

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/bigger-your-brain-longer-you-yawn

How Did Primate Brains Get So Big?

http://neurosciencenews.com/primate-brain-size-evolution-4833/

Schizophrenia Emerged After Humans Diverged From Neanderthals

http://neurosciencenews.com/schizophrenia-evolution-4845/

Neanderthal middle ear structure found to be closer to modern human than apes

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-09-neanderthal-middle-ear-closer-modern.html

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness by Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt review – how the brain created experience

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/09/the-ancient-origins-of-conciousness-todd-feinberg-and-john-mallet-review

Dogs Know When You're Praising Them. That Doesn't Mean They Understand Human Speech

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-dogs-understand-human-speech-how-can-we-be-sure-180960336/

Bloodthirsty Brains: Study Challenges Evolutionary Development of the Human Brain

http://neurosciencenews.com/brain-evolution-development-4940/

Neural networks: Why larger brains are more susceptible to mental illnesses

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-neural-networks-larger-brains-susceptible.html

Antisocial cave fish may hold clues to schizophrenia, autism

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/antisocial-cave-fish-may-hold-clues-schizophrenia-autism

Brain Trust at GWU: The National Chimpanzee Brain Resource

https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/brain-trust-george-washington

A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/

Parrots, songbirds pack more neurons into their forebrains than most mammals

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/parrots-songbirds-pack-more-neurons-their-forebrains-most-mammals

Babies are born helpless, which might explain why humans are so clever

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21699433-babies-are-born-helpless-which-might-explain-why-humans-are-so-clever-bairns?

Large human brain evolved thanks to increased metabolic rate

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/04/large-human-brain-evolved-thanks-to-increased-metabolic-rate?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience

Despite their small brains, ravens and crows may be just as clever as chimps, research suggests

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160426101527.htm

Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk

http://phys.org/news/2010-03-cro-magnon-skull-brains-shrunk.html

Researchers figure out similarities in brain architecture between birdsand apes

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/researchers-figure-out-similarities-in.html

How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151110-evolution-of-big-brains

A Genetic Map Hints At What Makes A Brain Human

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/16/456197216/a-genetic-map-hints-at-what-makes-a-brain-human?utm_source=hootsuite

Why Some Animals Have a Head for Directions [Cartoon]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-some-animals-have-a-head-for-directions-cartoon/

Down From the Trees, Humans Finally Got a Decent Night’s Sleep

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/down-from-the-trees-humans-finally-got-a-decent-nights-sleep.html

Dodo Birds Weren't Dodos After All

http://m.livescience.com/53822-dodo-birds-were-smart.html

The Link Between Neanderthal DNA and Depression Risk

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/neanderthal-dna-affects-depression-risk-today/462345/

Some Carnivores Are Better Than Others at Unlocking Dinner

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/science/some-carnivores-are-better-than-others-at-unlocking-dinner.html

What Makes Our Brains Special?

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-our-brains-special/

The Unique Flexibility of the Human Brain

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/the-unique-flexibility-of-the-human-brain

Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures, study finds

http://www.psypost.org/2015/09/chimpanzee-personality-linked-to-anatomy-of-brain-structures-study-finds-38029

How to fossilize a brain

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-fossilize-brain-180957219/

Tiny protein 'compasses' found in fruit flies - and potentially humans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/16/tiny-protein-compasses-found-in-fruit-flies-and-potentially-humans?CMP=twt_gu

Tracing the Evolution of the Human Brain Through Casts of the Inner Skull

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article/70306/tracing-evolution-human-brain-through-casts-inner-skull

How Sound Shaped The Evolution Of Your Brain

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/10/436342537/how-sound-shaped-the-evolution-of-your-brain

Stem cell research hints at evolution of human brain

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-stem-cell-hints-evolution-human.html

Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660955-studying-cephalopods-may-illuminate-evolution-brains-all-sorts-tentacles

Blind cave fish evolved a shrunken brain to save energy

http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/sep/11/blind-cave-fish-evolved-an-energy-saving-shrunken-brain?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150910084610.htm

Single Molecular Event Holds Key to How We Evolved to Become the Smartest Animals

http://neurosciencenews.com/ptbp1-neuroscience-evolution-brain-2484/

New fossil skulls reveal insights about penguin brain evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150827111635.htm?

Old world monkey had tiny yet complex brain.

http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-complexity-vctoriapithecus-2193/

Brains, Genes, and Primates: The future of higher research on the planet of the apes

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-brains-genes-primates-future-higher.html

Bats in Flight: How Information About Airflow is Sent to the Brain

http://neurosciencenews.com/bat-flight-touch-evolution-2016

For an Octopus, Seeing the Light Doesn’t Require Eyes

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/science/for-an-octopus-seeing-the-light-doesnt-require-eyes.html?_r=0&referrer=

The fly's neural compass works just like a mammal's

Why would an animal lose its brain?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains

Thanks to evolution, blind cave-dwellers are rapidly losing the visual parts of their brains

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/08/thanks-to-evolution-blind-cave-dwellers-are-rapidly-losing-the-visual-parts-of-their-brains/

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150325-did-neurons-evolve-twice/

Researchers map switches that shaped the evolution of the human brain

http://app.rdmag.com/news/2015/03/researchers-map-switches-shaped-evolution-human-brain

Brain evolution and disease A Faustian bargain

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21645713-could-key-evolution-human-brain-be-found-dreadful?fsrc=rss%7Csct

'Big Brain' Gene Found in Humans, Not Chimps

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/big-brain-gene-found-in-humans-not-chimps-150226.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Mouse embryo with big brain: Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150219133104.htm

Complex environments push ‘brain’ evolution

http://bit.ly/1zjqtdd

World’s Oldest Butchery Tools Gave Evolutionary Edge to Human Communication

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-evolution-communication-tools-1697/